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- Nov 2022
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darwin-online.org.uk darwin-online.org.uk
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medium.com medium.com
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https://medium.com/@ben_fry/tracing-the-origin-65011dc20877
Could be interesting to apply this sort of process to a variety of texts over time. A draft of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes to mind.
How to view this through the lens of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions? particularly as this was the evolution of an idea by the same author over time...
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Fifty years ago, coinciding with the centennial of the release of Darwin’s manuscript, author Morse Peckham collected all six editions into a single “variorum” text. Peckham painstakingly created a reference system that denotes the modifications and changes between editions. The text was created by Peckham’s careful enumeration of every sentence from every edition, copied onto index cards; from these cards, he carefully assembled them into a final text.
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- evolution
- variorum text
- card index for version control
- version control
- Thomas Kuhn
- On the Origin of Species
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- publishing
- read
- index cards
- index cards for outlining
- digital humanities
- Morse Peckham
- card index for writing
- visualizations
- paradigm shifts
- Charles Darwin
- evolution of knowledge
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