How did research even happen before the internet? It seems like there was a lot more mnemonic discipline involved. Especially in botany etc: how would you intuit whether you found a new species (of any sort of artifact)?
cc @Meaningness @andy_matuschak
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Thanks! I’d think so. There was a famous bio out a couple years ago called ‘the invention of nature’ which covers at least some of his botanical data gathering techniques.
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ill check it out! I saw Proteus: a 19th century vision (http://kanopy.com/video/proteus ) last night and my head's spinning not at Haeckel's insight but the sheer discipline of the whole cataloging endeavor
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