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Publication date: 1 February 1983

MAGDA WHITROW

Condorcet's is not a name that figures prominently in histories of classification systems; even in Samurin's monumental and comprehensive work—apart from a reference to the…

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Condorcet's is not a name that figures prominently in histories of classification systems; even in Samurin's monumental and comprehensive work—apart from a reference to the influence of his ideas on the system developed by the ‘Institut National des Sciences et Arts’—he is only mentioned in footnotes. Samurin claims that Condorcet's ideas on classification were of a high standard for his period and that the system of the Institut National influenced many nineteenth and twentieth century schemes. However, no reference is made in his or, as far as I have been able to ascertain, in any other history of classification to the technique to which Condorcet made a passing reference in the final chapter of the Esquisse d'un Tableau Historique des Progrès de l'Esprit Humain and which is described in a manuscript in the possession of the Bibliotheque Nationale. This essay entitled ‘Example des methodes techniques’ was published, together with an introductory article on ‘An Unpublished Essay of Condorcet on Technical Methods of Classification’, by K. M. Baker in Annals of Science. Baker is mainly concerned with Condorcet's ideas on the nature of scientific method and with the uses of the technique he described for the framing and testing of hypotheses. Condorcet insisted that his technique was more than a method which allows for the ordering and subsequent retrieval of scientific information. It had a more fundamental utility: that of arranging objects methodically in such a way that the characteristics of each could be related to those of all in whatever way the researcher wished.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 39 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 April 1965

MAGDA WHITROW

The first volume of the Isis cumulative bibliography, based on the critical bibliographies published annually in Isis, will be a kind of biobibliography. It will contain all…

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The first volume of the Isis cumulative bibliography, based on the critical bibliographies published annually in Isis, will be a kind of biobibliography. It will contain all entries relating to men of science or to personalities of interest to the historian of science that have appeared in the annual critical bibliographies, forming a personal name index. The names will be in alphabetical order.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 21 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 March 1964

MAGDA WHITROW

As a discipline, the history of science is comparatively young. Although Baden‐Powell's Historical view of the progress of the physical and mathematical sciences from the earliest

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As a discipline, the history of science is comparatively young. Although Baden‐Powell's Historical view of the progress of the physical and mathematical sciences from the earliest ages to the present time and Whewell's History of the inductive sciences from the earliest to the present times, both pioneer works in the field, were published in 1834 and 1837 respectively, the history of science as a subject in its own right may be said to have only come into existence in this century. Interest in the history of individual sciences, particularly mathematics and medicine, began much earlier and quite a few periodicals devoted to them were inaugurated during the last century. On the other hand, most of the periodicals dealing with the history of science as a whole were begun during the last two decades and only a few go back to the beginning of this century. The first volume of Mitteilungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften was published in Leipzig in 1902; Archiv für die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik followed in 1909, and Rivista di Storia (critica) delle Scienze mediche e naturali in 1910. Isis, originally subtitled Revue consacrée à l'histoire de la science (now An international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences), was founded in 1912 by George Sarton, the first number appearing in March 1913. It began its life in Belgium, but after the invasion of that country moved with its first editor to the United States. Volume 2, begun in June 1914, was completed in September 1919. From the beginning an international review, it changed its ‘editorial language’, as it were, from French to English in 1920, but it continued to publish articles and papers in the main European languages. From the first issue, one of its principal features was a bibliography of the literature of the history of science.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 20 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 January 1964

At the February evening meeting Dr T. C. Barker of the Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, will be talking on ‘Business records for the future’. Mr…

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At the February evening meeting Dr T. C. Barker of the Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, will be talking on ‘Business records for the future’. Mr Geoffrey Woledge, Librarian of the British Library of Political and Economic Science, will take the chair. Dr Barker will discuss the impossibility of preserving all business records, and the need to foresee what type of document is likely to be called for in the future, either by members of the particular business concerned or by historians who are called in to write the history of a firm. Broadly speaking, it is the policy documents that need to be kept and the day‐to‐day records that can often be disposed of; but there are exceptions to this general rule.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 16 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 May 1964

IN The verdict of you all, Rupert Croft‐Cooke has some uncomplimentary things to say about novel readers as a class, which is at least an unusual look at his public by a…

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IN The verdict of you all, Rupert Croft‐Cooke has some uncomplimentary things to say about novel readers as a class, which is at least an unusual look at his public by a practitioner whose income for many years was provided by those he denigrates.

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New Library World, vol. 65 no. 11
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ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 December 1964

All items listed may be borrowed from the Aslib Library, except those marked, which may be consulted in the Library.

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All items listed may be borrowed from the Aslib Library, except those marked, which may be consulted in the Library.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 16 no. 12
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ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 September 1957

Sir John Wolfenden, Vice‐Chancellor of Reading University, and Dr. T. E. Allibone, Director of the Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. Research Laboratory at Aldermaston, have…

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Sir John Wolfenden, Vice‐Chancellor of Reading University, and Dr. T. E. Allibone, Director of the Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. Research Laboratory at Aldermaston, have been appointed official D.S.I.R. Visitors to Aslib. Their appointment extends to Aslib for the first time the Visitor system which has operated so successfully for many years between the Department and the Research Associations. The Visitors are available to discuss and advise on general policies and to give independent advice to the Department whenever an application for Government grant is made. Aslib is singularly fortunate in the choice of two such eminent persons to take an interest in its work, and trusts that they will enjoy their association with Aslib as much as Aslib will enjoy their interest and help.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 9 no. 9
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ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 March 1960

ELLEN M. CODLIN

My observations on the subject of making the technologist information‐conscious may be divided into two parts. Firstly, an examination of the circumstances which make a special…

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My observations on the subject of making the technologist information‐conscious may be divided into two parts. Firstly, an examination of the circumstances which make a special effort necessary; and secondly, a listing of some ‘paperwork’ methods of furthering the effort.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 12 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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