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John Locke's unique method of indexing his common place books.

The philosopher's method for creating a personalized encyclopedia of quotations.

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Well, the idea of keeping a commonplace book has clearly struck a nerve. Not only did the article make the…

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November 2015 Procedures of Encounter, or, My Commonplace Log Practice Several years ago I was in a small specialty bookstore and came upon a book with mostly blank pages simply called A Little Commonplace Book, published in 2010 by Cabinet Books & Proteotypes. It is a facsimile of a 1796 commonplace book method published by Hamilton…

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What is a commonplace book and how do you use one? This post contains the answers to these questions and has some helpful tips.

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In the quest to fill some of my blank journals, I started a commonplace book for all the quotes and inspiration I want to hold on to. I LOVE my commonplace journal, so in this blog I will show you how to keep a commonplace book, and why they can be great memory keeping journals, places to store inspirational quotes and

The three major approaches to commonplacing as practiced by physicians and other scholars before Locke are presented--the systematic or textbook approach, the alphabetical approach and the sequential or index-based approach--and Locke himself applied them in his own commonplace books are analyzed. In 1676, the English physician and philosopher John Locke published a new method of commonplacing. He had developed this method and, in particular, a new approach to organizing and indexing the entries, in the course of 25 years of personal note-taking and it proved quite influential. This paper presents the three major approaches to commonplacing as practiced by physicians and other scholars before Locke--the systematic or textbook approach, the alphabetical approach and the sequential or index-based approach--and it analyzes the ways in which Locke himself applied them in his own commonplace books. In comparison with established approaches, his new method offered a maximum degree of flexibilitywhile facilitating the later retrieval of notes and minimising waste of space and paper. Thanks to these features, it was particularly well suited for physicians and natural philosophers who were interested in the infinite variety of natural particulars rather than in elegant quotes on a very limited set of classical topics. In conclusion, the potential epistemic impact of commonplacing on early modern medicine and natural philosophy is discussed, in particular its importance for contemporary debates about species and disease entities and for the emergence of the notion of "facts"!

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