Timmermann Anke
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, USA.
Early Sci Med. 2008;13(1):25-52. doi: 10.1163/157338207x242456.
This is a case study on a series of at least thirty-four sixteenth-century notebooks from the Sloane collection, which reconsiders early modern notetaking techniques and the organisation of knowledge. These notebooks were written by an anonymous compiler, a physician who read widely in the alchemical and medical literature available in his lifetime, the late sixteenth century. In the alchemica, he devotes individual volumes to specific alchemical substances, which are connected with each other by means of a complex system of cross-referencing; they are constantly revised and change appearance according to the physician's latest ideas about alchemical medicines. As a result, the notebooks not only preserve received information (a task otherwise performed by commonplace books in this period)--they also represent an equivalent to the alchemical workshop, where the combination of different textual elements generates knowledge.
这是一项关于斯隆藏品中一系列至少34本16世纪笔记本的案例研究，该研究重新审视了近代早期的笔记技巧和知识组织方式。这些笔记本由一位匿名编纂者所写，他是一名医生，在16世纪晚期他有生之年广泛阅读了炼金术和医学文献。在炼金术著作中，他将单独的卷册用于特定的炼金术物质，这些物质通过一个复杂的交叉引用系统相互关联；它们不断被修订，并根据这位医生对炼金术药物的最新想法而改变面貌。因此，这些笔记本不仅保存了已有的信息（这一任务在这个时期通常由普通书籍来完成）——它们还相当于炼金术工坊，在那里不同文本元素的结合产生了知识。
