Join in the Davy Notebooks Project and help transcribe these important sources for anyone interested in science and literature.
About the project:
Aims
Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was perhaps the most famous chemist of
the nineteenth century. This project aims to transcribe five of Davy’s
early notebooks, which show his experiments in both chemistry and
poetry.
The notebooks selected for this pilot run reveal how Davy’s mind
worked and how his thinking developed. Containing details of his
scientific experiments, poetry, geological observations, travel
accounts, and personal philosophy, Davy's notebooks present us with a
wide range of fascinating insights. Many of the pages of these notebooks have never been transcribed before.
By transcribing these notebooks, we will find out more about the young
Davy, his life, and the cultures and networks of which he was part.
The transcriptions produced by Zooniverse participants, and images of
the manuscript pages, will later be published online on a custom-built,
open access website, providing unprecedented access to these important
historical documents. All individual participants will be given the
option to be listed in the Acknowledgements section of the Davy
Notebooks Project website. This is entirely optional, and at the sole
discretion of each individual participant.
We hope that transcribers will also take part in the next run of our FutureLearn Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) ‘Humphry Davy: Laughing Gas, Literature, and the Lamp’. You will be able to sign up to this course at the end of July and the four-week course will begin on 28 October 2019.
Davy’s Notebooks in the RI
The RI holds an important collection of seventy-one unpublished
notebooks written by Davy. Davy held several positions at the RI
(Director of the Laboratory, 1801-25; Professor of Chemistry, 1802-12;
Honorary Professor, 1813-23) and did his most important research there.
The current run of the Davy Notebooks Project is intended as a pilot: we
aim to transcribe five notebooks between June-September 2019. If
successful, the project will later be expanded, and further notebooks
will be transcribed.
No comments:
Post a Comment