Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper aims to show how Casey Albert Wood’s passion for rare books and strong interest in the history of ophthalmology resulted in significant contributions to the development of the McGill Libraries’ collections. The first two parts will document the acquisition processes of the Ivanow and Meyerhof collections, highlight some of the codicological and paleographical characteristics of items in these collections, and explain how to navigate and access them today. The third part will focus on Wood’s Arabic-to-English translation of an eleventh-century eye treatise entitled Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn (“Memorandum Book of a Tenth-Century Oculist for the Use of Modern Ophtalmologist”)[1], often recognized as one of his greatest contributions to the field of the history of ophthalmology. The fourth and concluding part will describe the unique and remarkable collection of original manuscripts of the Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn collected and presented to the McGill Library by Casey A. Wood. [1] Casey Wood’s translation. [1] Casey Wood’s translation.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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".