Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science

by Richard Yeo

In Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution. Notebooks were important to several key members of the Royal Society of London, including Robert Boyle, John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, John Locke, and others, who drew on Renaissance humanist techniques of excerpting from texts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022610656X
• ISBN13: 9780226106564
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"