From Field to Philosophy: Structures, Content, and Context of Notebooks at the Natural History Museum.

从田野到哲学：自然历史博物馆笔记本的结构、内容和背景。

• 批准号: 2073549
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2073549
• 关键词: Field; Philosophy; Structures; Content; Context

Field notebooks are new or repurposed blank books used by a naturalist to record primary observational research. Research on relationships between form and function has thus far focused on fine bindings of printed matter: literature on plain, cheap, and stationery bindings is much less prevalent. The proposed research will examine how, why, and where naturalists sourced the bound volumes they took into the field. The materials and construction of field notebooks from the early modern period (ca.1600-1800), will be compared with notebooks intended for domestic and business use. Initial research will focus on the collections of the Natural History Museum (London), before expanding to scrutinise material held at the Linnaean Society, the National Archives, and several smaller repositories. It is anticipated that items used as field notebooks will range widely in form, function, and quality - research will identify and examine relationships (if any) between the financial value of the object and the perceived intellectual value of its contents.An examination of sewing structures, paper quality, and pagination will be bolstered by the application of high-level microscopy and hyper-spectral imaging. A lack of research on stationery bindings leads naturally to a dearth of literature, so this project will consider the material in historical context. An examination of stationers' and bookbinders' records will develop a framework of costs, supply, and demand in contrast to those of printed books: existing research currently makes little distinction between the two. Data gathered will assist the NHM in identifying exploiting the research wealth of its manuscript collections, enabling a hidden collection of primary resource material to become accessible to a global research audience. The outcomes will also be of permanent value in documenting this under-explored book format which has nevertheless been an essential tool in the lives of many people over the centuries.

野外笔记本是自然学家用来记录主要观测研究的新的或重新调整用途的空白笔记本。到目前为止，对形式和功能之间关系的研究主要集中在印刷品的精细装订上：关于普通、廉价和信纸装订的文献要少得多。这项拟议的研究将研究博物学家如何、为什么以及在哪里获得他们带到该领域的装订卷。现代早期(约1600-1800年)田野笔记本的材料和构造将与家用和商用笔记本进行比较。最初的研究将集中在自然历史博物馆(伦敦)的藏品上，然后扩大到仔细审查林奈学会、国家档案馆和几个较小的储存库持有的材料。预计用作现场笔记本的物品将在形式、功能和质量方面有很大的变化-研究将确定和检查对象的经济价值和其内容物的感知智力价值之间的关系(如果有)。对缝纫结构、纸张质量和分页的检查将通过高水平显微镜和高光谱成像的应用得到支持。由于缺乏对文具装订的研究，自然导致文献的匮乏，因此本项目将从历史的背景来考虑材料。对文具商和装订商记录的检查将形成一个关于成本、供应和需求的框架，与印刷书籍的成本、供应和需求形成对比：目前的研究几乎没有区分这两者。收集的数据将帮助NHM确定利用其手稿收藏的研究财富，使全球研究受众能够获得隐藏的一次资源材料收藏。这些成果在记录这一未被探索的书籍格式方面也将具有永久的价值，尽管如此，它在几个世纪以来一直是许多人生活中的重要工具。