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An example is "Bell's Common-Place Book, Formed generally upon the Principles Recommended and Practised by Mr Locke" which was published by John Bell almost a century after Locke's treatise. A copy of this blank commonplace was used by Erasmus Darwin from 1776 to 1787, and it was later used by Charles Darwin who called it "the great book" when composing his grandfather's biography.
In 1685 English physician and philosopher John Locke published “Méthode nouvelle de dresser des recueils,” which explains his unique method of indexing his common-place book. Later translated from French into English as A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books, with a preface by Monsieur Le Clerc, who augments and clarifies the work.
Nov 21, 2023 · John Locke was born on 29 August 1632 in Wrington, in the county of Somerset, England, into a modest Puritan family of traders. In the troubled times of the English Civil Wars (1642-1651), John's father had fought in the army of the Parliamentarians, the ultimate victors who abolished the monarchy. John was educated at the Westminster School ...
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bstractIn 1676, the English physician and philosopher John Locke published a new method of commonplacing. He had developed this method and, in particular, a new approach to organizing a. d indexing the entries, in the course of 25 years of personal note-taking and it proved quite influential. This paper presents the three major approaches to ...
August 29, 1632, Wrington, England October 28, 1704, Oates, England. Works, A New Edition Corrected, (1823) Peter King, T he Life of John Locke with extracts from his Correspondence, Journals and Common-place books, (New Edition 1830) Volume One; Volume Two. References.
Jan 8, 2007 · Locke: A Biography. This is the first comprehensive biography in half a century of John Locke -“a man of versatile mind, fitted for whatever you shall undertake”, as one of his many good friends very aptly described him. Against an exciting historical background of the English Civil War, religious intolerance and bigotry, anti-Government ...
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May 19, 2007 · Roger Woolhouse, Locke: A Biography, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 528pp., $39.99 (hbk), ISBN 9780521817868. Reviewed by John Milton, King's College London. 2007.05.19. Despite the copious documentation available, Locke is not an easy subject for a biographer. He was a very cautious and self-controlled man -- 'a master of taciturnity and ...
