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Abstract
s thoroughly illustrated book takes readers on a journey through John Evelyn's efforts at domesticity.The work differs markedly from other texts on Evelyn because it does not overwhelmingly focus upon the gardener and writer's Diary.Instead, it focuses attention on leading biographies and public and private collections of Evelyn's pedagogical and scientific writings.Hunt addresses, in a balanced way, key moments from Evelyn's public and personal life, family, home, and interests.What emerges is a fresh portrait of the acclaimed seventeenth-century figure, one that paints him as a man intent upon employing his personal pursuits for the betterment of England.Engaging in activities such as numismatics and arboriculture was Evelyn's means of coping with the religious and political disorder that afflicted seventeenthcentury England.However, indulging in personal activities allowed Evelyn to contemplate and write on social issues and environmental changes and, ultimately, contribute knowledge and insight to early Enlightenment culture.In chapter 1, Hunt offers readers two definitions of domesticity.First, and more familiarly, domesticity encompasses participation in the events of home and family life.Second, it consists of harnessing and transporting concepts, designs, and resources from one place to another.Domesticity was for Evelyn, on both intimate and public levels, inextricably linked with improvement.This connection therefore compelled him to constantly seek to make novel and foreign ideas available to his family, friends, and nation.If ideas could be adapted and made better they could be used for growth and enrichment.Chapters 2 through 5 illustrate how Evelyn's early life and travels influenced his passion for domesticity.Born into a wealthy family, Evelyn's life was marked by privilege from an early age.An opportunity was made for him to study at Eton; however, his dislike of the school's disciplinary regime deterred him from attending.Though later educated at Oxford, his most impactful learning experiences were his Continental travels.In 1641 he visited parks and gardens in the Low Countries, and between 1643 and 1647 he journeyed through Italy and France, where he indulged his passion for gardening by visiting Pierre Morin's oval garden.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".