notebooks

(1987) Introdução: Herbert e Kohn The seven notebooks lettered alphabetically- Notebooks A, B, C, D, E, Mand N- form the core of this edition. T hey define the centre of the notebook period, summer 1837 to summer 1839, and elaborate its key topics: geology (Notebook A), transmutation of species (Notebooks B to E), and metaphysical enquiries (Notebooks M and N). The other eight manuscripts relate directly to this core. The Red Notebook contains both geological and transmutationist themes and was the predecessor to the later notebooks. The Glen Roy Notebook, while primarily a geological field notebook, contains occasional observations on breeding and instinct. The Torn Apart Notebook was a direct continuation of Notebook E, the brief Summer 1842 Notes being on related themes but later. The Zoology Notes, Edinburgh Notebook were a series of notes running roughly parallel in time and subject matter to the transmutation notebooks. Questions & Experiments carried forward   transmut...