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

汉弗莱·戴维的笔记本：诗歌如何帮助创造科学知识

基本信息

批准号：
AH/V002015/1
负责人：
Sharon Ruston
金额：
$ 103.52万
依托单位：
Lancaster University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV002015%2F1
关键词：
Humphry Davy Notebooks How Poetry

项目摘要

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.

2019年，AHRC的资助使19世纪化学家汉弗莱·戴维爵士在1795年至1805年期间保存的五本笔记本的众包转录成为可能。这些笔记本的抄本揭示了戴维在工作中的创造性思维：在描述化学实验、哲学沉思、地质绘图和他的生活描述中写下了一行行诗歌。通过这个新项目，我们将众包他的整个笔记本收藏的转录：有65个在伦敦的英国皇家学会(RI)举行，5个在康沃尔的雷德鲁斯的Kresen Kernow举行。戴维一生都在保留笔记本，但这些笔记本中的大部分页面以前从未被转录过。这些笔记本显示，他在实验室进行科学实验时写了诗。大多数条目还没有根据它们告诉我们的关于戴维的信息、他的科学发现以及诗歌和科学之间的关系来确定日期或加以考虑。我们将使用人力研究平台Zooniverse众包笔记本的转录。与参与者的在线和面对面讨论将使我们能够了解转录Davy的笔记本如何改变他们对诗歌和科学如何在今天共存的观点。把艺术和科学割裂开来的后果是严重的。把它们视为“两种文化”阻碍了我们解决重大世界问题的能力。在AHRC 2019年的交付计划中，这个项目将询问我们可以从Davy的笔记本中学到什么，帮助我们重新思考我们对19世纪和今天的艺术和科学之间的关系的理解。Davy是他那个时代最重要的“科学人”，这是AHRC 2019年交付计划中指定的优先领域。他分离出的化学元素比之前或之后任何个人都多。1815年10月至12月，他发明了一种矿工安全灯，后来被称为大卫灯，拯救了英国和欧洲无数人的生命，极大地提高了国家的工业能力。他还过着令人着迷的生活，从相对朴素的出身一路晋升到皇家学会主席。随着他职业生涯的发展，他的政治和宗教信仰从激进转变为保守。戴维目前并不与诗歌联系在一起，也不是众所周知的诗人，但笔记本显示，他一生都在实验室里进行科学实验时写诗。其中许多诗歌将被转录并首次在兰开斯特数字图书馆和精选印刷版中出版。我们将传播研究成果，鼓励参与该项目，并在我们的公共参与和影响活动中提出关键问题，其中包括两个转录-a-thon，一个地图-a-thon，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19世纪科学笔记本中的诗歌的学术会议，一个使用该项目产生的数据的计算机大师班，以及一个将考虑Davy对种族的态度的活动。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巡回演出。我们将在学术会议上举行两次小组会议，并就该项目的结果在一份学术期刊上出版一期特刊。已经存在的大规模在线公开课(MOOC)，以前由AHRC资助，将得到增强，专门在笔记本电脑上推出新任务。整个笔记本收藏的最终抄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，具有改进后的新功能和令人兴奋的功能。随附的一个项目网站将展示戴维的生平地图，利用从这个项目和之前AHRC资助的项目中获得的信息，在戴维的信件上。