Elizabeth Yale. Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The recent Brexit vote in the UK has brought the question of national identity in the British Isles back to the forefront of both popular and scholarly attention. Should Britain be considered part of Europe or a distinct entity with a rather different culture and a distinct history? To what degree are the histories of England, Scotland, and Ireland part of the same national story? Elizabeth Yale’s Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain does not address these questions directly, but they lurk in the shadows of a work that focuses on the difficult scholarly labors of seventeenth-century natural historians in Britain and Ireland. The book uses the insights of historians of print culture and the new social history of knowledge to develop a new perspective on how natural historians managed to write their works, to communicate their knowledge, and ultimately to imagine how their histories fit into a larger history of the British nation. The irony behind this story, as true today as it was in the seventeenth century, is that despite the intensity of their devotion, these labors never cohered. Natural history and the history of the nation in early modern Britain remained incomplete and fragmented projects.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".