Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science
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Preface
1. Introduction
2. Capacious Memory and Copious Notebooks
3. Information and Empirical Sensibility
4. Taking Notes in Samuel Hartlib’s Circle
5. Rival Memories: John Beale and Robert Boyleon Empirical Information
6. Robert Boyle’s Loose Notes
7. John Locke, Master Note-taker
8. Collective Note-taking and Robert Hooke’s Dynamic Archive
9. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Manuscript Sources
Bibliography
Index
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