scholarly journals Scribal Publication of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson's Commonplace Books

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-87
Author(s):  
Chiara Cillerai
Keyword(s):  
Commonplace Books ◽  
Scribal Publication

Locke and Descartes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Milton
Keyword(s):  
Commonplace Books ◽  
Biographical Account ◽  
Mechanical Physics ◽  
State Of Affairs

This chapter is a biographical account of Locke’s first encounter with Descartes’s works. It looks at Locke’s manuscript commonplace books with the aim of determining in as much detail as is now possible what books by Descartes Locke read in the period before he started work on the drafts of the Essay, what he found of interest in them, and what conclusions might be drawn from this data about his philosophical development. It shows that there is evidence of a considerable and sustained interest in Descartes’s mechanical physics but hardly any visible interest in his metaphysics or epistemology—and considers the possible reasons for this state of affairs.

The Manuscript Miscellany

2020 ◽  
pp. 878-884
Author(s):  
George Rigg
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Physical Evidence ◽  
Commonplace Books

This chapter surveys manuscript miscellanies or commonplace books, unique compilations of seemingly random items chosen by individual compilers for their own purposes. The author discusses the physical evidence for the compilation procedure, the textual and cultural context in which the compilation was made, and the content of the manuscript in question.

Commonplace books

1882 ◽  
Vol s6-VI (135) ◽  
pp. 87-88
Author(s):  
Ed. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Commonplace Books
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