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Professor Matthew Daniel Eddy's Outputs (11)

The Nature of Notebooks: How Enlightenment Schoolchildren Transformed the Tabula Rasa (2018)
Journal Article
Eddy, M. D. (2018). The Nature of Notebooks: How Enlightenment Schoolchildren Transformed the Tabula Rasa. Journal of British Studies, 57(2), 275-307. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2017.239

John Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa, was one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment. Though scholars embrace its impact on the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences... Read More about The Nature of Notebooks: How Enlightenment Schoolchildren Transformed the Tabula Rasa.

The Interactive Notebook: How Students Learned to Keep Notes during the Scottish Enlightenment (2016)
Journal Article
Eddy, M. (2016). The Interactive Notebook: How Students Learned to Keep Notes during the Scottish Enlightenment. Book History, 19(1), 86-131. https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2016.0002

Concentrating on the rich tradition of graphic culture that permeated Scotland’s universities during the long eighteenth century, this essay argues that student lecture notebooks were a sophisticated form of scribal media. I reveal that they were ins... Read More about The Interactive Notebook: How Students Learned to Keep Notes during the Scottish Enlightenment.

How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity (2014)
Journal Article
Eddy, M. D. (2014). How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity. Osiris, 29(1), 178-196. https://doi.org/10.1086/678093

In 1766, Thomas Cochrane entered the Edinburgh classroom of Joseph Black (1728–99) to learn chemistry for the first time. Cochrane was studying medicine, and, like so many of Black’s students, he dutifully recorded several diagrams in his notebooks.... Read More about How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity.

Tools for reordering:Commonplacing and the Space of Words in Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica. (2010)
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Eddy, M. (2010). Tools for reordering:Commonplacing and the Space of Words in Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica. Intellectual History Review, 20(2), 227-252. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496971003783773

While much has been written on the cultural and intellectual antecedents that gave rise to Carolus Linnaeus’s herbarium and his Systema Naturae, the tools that he used to transform his raw observations into nomenclatural terms and categories have bee... Read More about Tools for reordering:Commonplacing and the Space of Words in Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica..

Elements, principles and the narrative of affinity. Mi Gyung Kim : affinity that illusive dream : a genealogy of the chemical revolution (2004)
Journal Article
Eddy, M. D. (2004). Elements, principles and the narrative of affinity. Mi Gyung Kim : affinity that illusive dream : a genealogy of the chemical revolution. Foundations of Chemistry, 6(2), 161-175. https://doi.org/10.1023/b%3Afoch.0000035061.02831.45

In the 18th century, the concept of ‘affinity’, ‘principle’ and ‘element’ dominated chemical discourse, both inside and outside the laboratory. Although much work has been done on these terms and the methodological commitments which guided their usag... Read More about Elements, principles and the narrative of affinity. Mi Gyung Kim : affinity that illusive dream : a genealogy of the chemical revolution.

The University of Edinburgh natural history class lists 1782-1800 (2003)
Journal Article
Eddy, M. D. (2003). The University of Edinburgh natural history class lists 1782-1800. Archives of Natural History, 30(1), 97-117

In 1779 Revd Dr John Walker was appointed to be the University of Edinburgh’s Professor of Natural History. Because of the institutional structure of the university, he took care to keep detailed class lists from 1782 to 1800. These are extant in the... Read More about The University of Edinburgh natural history class lists 1782-1800.