Humphry Davy's Notebooks: How Poetry Helped Create Scientific Knowledge

2019年，AHRC的资金使19世纪化学家Humphry Davy爵士在1795年至1805年之间保存的五本笔记本的众包传输成为可能。这些笔记本的平静揭示了戴维的创造性思维：在化学实验的描述、哲学思考、地质绘图和他的生活记录中写下了一行行的诗歌。有了这个新项目，我们将众包他的整个笔记本收藏：有65个在伦敦的英国皇家研究所（RI）举行，五个在康沃尔郡雷德鲁斯的Kresen Kernow举行。戴维一生都在记笔记本，但这些笔记本的大部分页面以前从未被转录过。笔记本显示，他在实验室里写诗，同时进行科学实验。大多数条目还没有被确定日期，或者根据它们告诉我们的关于戴维、他的科学发现以及诗歌和科学之间的关系来考虑。我们将使用以人为动力的研究平台Zooniverse众包笔记本电脑的传输。在线和面对面的讨论将使我们能够了解如何转录戴维的笔记本改变了他们的看法如何诗歌和科学可以共存的今天。把艺术和科学分开的后果是严重的。将它们视为“两种文化”会阻碍我们解决重大世界问题的能力。谈到AHRC 2019年交付计划中指定的优先领域，“艺术与科学，科学中的艺术”，这个项目将问我们可以从戴维的笔记本中学到什么，这将有助于我们重新思考我们对十九世纪和今天艺术与科学之间关系的理解。戴维是他那个时代最重要的“科学家”。他分离出的化学元素比任何人之前或之后分离出的都多。1815年10月至12月，他发明了一种矿工安全灯，后来被称为戴维灯，拯救了英国和欧洲无数人的生命，大大提高了国家的工业能力。他还领导了一个迷人的生活，上升通过社会的行列从相对温和的起源，成为主席的皇家协会。他的政治和宗教信仰随着他的职业生涯的发展从激进转变为保守。戴维目前并不与诗歌有关，也不以诗人而闻名，但笔记本显示，他一生都在实验室里写诗，同时进行科学实验。其中许多诗歌将被转录和出版的第一次在兰开斯特数字图书馆和在一个选定的印刷版。我们将传播研究成果，鼓励参与该项目，并在我们的公众参与和影响事件中提出关键问题，其中包括两个转录马拉松，一个地图通村，一个关于如何在其他众包项目中使用新开发的转录工具的研讨会，一个关于十九世纪科学笔记本中诗歌的学术会议，一个使用该项目产生的数据的计算机大师班，一个考虑戴维对种族的态度的事件。我们还将在国际扶轮举办戴维和其他人的笔记本展览，该展览将在英格兰西北部和东北部举行。我们将在学术会议上举办两次小组讨论会，并就该项目的结果出版学术期刊特刊。已经存在的大规模在线开放课程（MOOC），以前由AHRC资助，将得到增强，以专门在笔记本电脑上提供新的任务。整个笔记本收藏的最终译本将在兰开斯特数字图书馆上出版，并附有页面本身的图像，以及改进的新功能和令人兴奋的功能。一个附带的项目网站将提供戴维生活的地图，利用这个项目和以前AHRC资助的戴维信件项目中出现的信息。

In 2019, AHRC funding enabled the crowdsourced transcriptions of five notebooks kept by the nineteenth-century chemist, Sir Humphry Davy, between 1795 and 1805. Transcriptions of these notebooks revealed Davy's creative mind at work: lines of poetry were written among descriptions of chemical experiments, philosophical musings, geological drawings, and accounts of his life. With this new project, we will crowdsource transcriptions of his entire notebook collection: there are 65 held at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI), in London, and five held in Kresen Kernow in Redruth, Cornwall. Davy kept notebooks throughout his life but most of the pages of these notebooks have never been transcribed before. The notebooks show that he was writing poetry in the laboratory while conducting scientific experiments. Most entries have yet to be dated or considered in the light of what they tell us about Davy, his scientific discoveries, and the relationship between poetry and science. We will crowdsource transcriptions of the notebooks using the people-powered research platform Zooniverse. Online and in-person discussions with participants will enable us to find out how transcribing Davy's notebooks changes their view of how poetry and science could co-exist today. The consequences of seeing the arts and sciences as divided and separate are serious. Viewing them as 'two cultures' hinders our ability to solve major world problems. Speaking to a named priority area in the AHRC's 2019 Delivery Plan, 'Arts and science, arts in science', this project will ask what we can learn from the example of Davy's notebooks that will help us rethink what we understand about the relationship between the arts and sciences in the nineteenth century and today.Davy was the foremost 'man of science' of his time. He isolated more chemical elements than any individual has before or since. Between October and December 1815, he invented a miners' safety lamp that came to be known as the Davy Lamp, saving countless lives in Britain and Europe and vastly improving the nation's industrial capability. He also led a fascinating life, rising up through society's ranks from relatively modest origins to become the President of the Royal Society. His politics and religious beliefs changed from radical to conservative as his career progressed. Davy is not currently associated with poetry or well known as a poet, but the notebooks show that he was writing poetry in the laboratory while conducting scientific experiments throughout his life. Many of these poems will be transcribed and published for the first time on the Lancaster Digital Library and in a selected print edition. We will disseminate research findings, encourage participation in the project, and ask key questions in our public engagement and impact events, which include two transcribe-a-thons, a map-a-thon, a workshop on how to use the newly-developed transcription tools in other crowdsourcing projects, an academic conference on poetry in nineteenth-century scientific notebooks, a computer masterclass using data produced by the project, and an event that will consider Davy's attitude to race. We will also create an exhibition of Davy's and others' notebooks held at the RI, which will travel to the north-west and north-east of England. We will present two panel sessions at academic conferences and produce a special issue of an academic journal on the results of the project. The already-existing Massive Online Open Course (MOOC), previously funded by the AHRC, will be enhanced to feature new tasks specifically on the notebooks. Final transcriptions of whole collection of notebooks will be published, with images of the pages themselves, on the Lancaster Digital Library, with improved new and exciting features. An accompanying project website will present a map of Davy's life, utilising the information that emerges from this project and a previous AHRC-funded project on Davy's letters.