Book chapter
Making Lists: Social and Material Technologies in the Making of Seventeenth-Century British Natural History
Ways of Making and Knowing, p.280
University of Michigan
2014
Abstract
In the second half of the seventeenth century, British naturalists developed the natural history query list as a tool for facilitating collaboration across a wide spectrum of observers. The query list was a collection of questions on diverse topics related to both natural and human history. Developed within a Baconian context that emphasized “incremental fact gathering” as a working methodology, individual queries were the investigative counterparts to natural historical facts.¹ Each query on the list was meant to elicit one or more natural facts, individual nuggets of data that, when sifted together with other nuggets from other respondents, would amount
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Making Lists: Social and Material Technologies in the Making of Seventeenth-Century British Natural History
- Creators
- Elizabeth Yale
- Contributors
- Pamela H. Smith (Editor)Amy R. W. Meyers (Editor)Harold J. Cook (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Ways of Making and Knowing, p.280
- Publisher
- University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2014
- Academic Unit
- Interdisciplinary Studies Program; History
- Record Identifier
- 9984721145902771
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