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)?
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I believe Von Humboldt took three samples of each of the many thousands of plants he collected on his South American travels. One was sent to London, another Paris, and the third enormous box lugged around with him for direct comparisons. Quality of note taking was also
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hAS ANYONE STUDIED THIS!?!?!? (love Memrise btw. learned so much about language during high school thru it)
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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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