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Record W2962850897 · doi:10.33137/rr.v41i4.32483

John Evelyn: A Life of Domesticity

2019· article· en· W2962850897 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
John Dixon Hunt, Jennifer Strtak

Bibliographic record

VenueRenaissance and Reformation · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical and Economic history of UK and US
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArtArt historySociology

Abstract

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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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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.893
Threshold uncertainty score0.114

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.260
Teacher spread0.242 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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