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• The "notebook"
• Examples of notebooks

The "notebook"

"Notebook" must be here understood with a fairly general meaning; that is, depending on the context, it could more specifically be called "field book", "observations book", "journal" or "labbook". What we concentrate on is a a meduim (paper or digital) on which information get stored "as it arrives"–as opposed to a report or a scientic paper where the logic of the argument directs the structure of the content–; the information concidered is not homogeneous (different topics do show up) and multiple media can be used.

Examples of notebooks

• Leonardo da Vinci notebooks (in pdf format) and the Wikipdia page on the Codex Leicester.
• The Wikipedia page on Galileo Galilei gives many links to his notebooks.
• Captain Cook's journal relating his first trip is available.
• Darwin's notebooks are also available.
• The exhaustive collection of Carl Linneaus paper slips can be found online.
• The complete collection of Linus Pauling labbooks can also be accesssed.
• The meridian's measure from Bunkirk to Barcelona by Delambre and Méchain is wonderfully made by Ken Alder in his book "The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World", a must read.