Dear all,
I’m delighted to announce that the website for the AHRC-funded project to crowdsource five of Humphry Davy’s notebooks is now online at http://humphrydavy.org.uk/notebooks/.
Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was one of the most significant and famous figures in the scientific and literary culture of early nineteenth-century Britain, Europe, and America. Davy’s scientific accomplishments include: conducting pioneering research into the physiological effects of nitrous oxide (often called ‘laughing gas’); isolating seven chemical elements (magnesium, calcium, potassium, sodium, strontium, barium, and boron) and establishing the elemental status of chlorine and iodine; inventing a miners’ safety lamp; developing the electrochemical protection of the copper sheeting of Royal Navy vessels; conserving the Herculaneum papyri; and writing an influential text on agricultural chemistry. Davy was also a poet, moving in the same literary circles as Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and William Wordsworth.
More than 500 people from around the world participated in the notebook transcriptions (using the Zooniverse platform: www.zooniverse.org). The notebooks transcribed date from 1795-1805 and contain a mixture of Davy’s thoughts, scientific experiments, poetry, geological observations, travel accounts, and personal philosophy. The website is fully searchable and the final transcriptions of all 5 notebooks can be read online.
Best,
Sharon Ruston
Professor Sharon Ruston
Department of English and Creative Writing
B92 County Main
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YW
Tel: 01524 592248
The Davy Letters Project: http://www.davy-letters.org.uk/
LitSciMed: http://litscimed.org.uk/
Twitter: @sharonruston
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