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May 8, 2019 · John Locke, A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books (London: J. greenwood, 1706) Popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a "commonplace book" was a notebook used to gather quotes and excerpts from one's literary wanderings — a kind of personalized encyclopedia of quotations. In "A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet" from 1721 ...
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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 ...
An outline of John Locke’s method of indexing commonplace books, which can be seen as a significant contribution to the emergence of modern indexing principles. [Thomas] Gray initially attempted to keep his notebooks in the manner first recommended by the philosopher John Locke in his writings on education. According to Locke’s method ...
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.
Oct 28, 2022 · However, the post-Renaissance legacy of the commonplace book is most closely associated with the philosopher John Locke’s influential and frequently employed system for indexing commonplace books, A new method of a common-place-book (1706). There he recommended a method that resolved the natural problems that arose through the compilation of disparate passages under various headings over time.
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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.
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John Locke's algorithm and the commonplace books. The paper examines the bibliographic genre of the collections of loci communes, better known in the Anglo-Saxon world with the expression of commonplace books, heirs to the fertile and flourishing tradition of ars excerpendi, i.e. the art of compiling collections of extracts and reading notes.
