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This 49-minute talk by Roland Allen explores the fascinating history of notebooks, with special emphasis on their significance to naturalists throughout history. Discover the origins of notebooks in medieval Italy, their adoption during the Renaissance, and their crucial role during the scientific revolution and Enlightenment. Learn how essential notebooks were to great scientific thinkers like Gessner, Linnaeus, and Darwin, both in field research and scholarly work. The presentation includes examples from the Linnean Society's own collection. Allen, author of the acclaimed 2023 book "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper," reveals how this simple technology profoundly influenced diverse fields from poetry to capitalism, while offering insights into its continued relevance today.
