1. The present writer's forthcoming study of Hooke's diary discusses his projects in self-recording. These included his attempt to record himself as if he were collecting data for a natural history of which he was the object, and using it as a means to improve his actual performance as a natural philosopher aware of his personal strengths and weaknesses.
2. Waller , Richard . Posthumous Works 66 – 68 . iv, referred to his ‘Philosophical Algebra’ as a ‘method of invention’. Modern writers include Mary Hesse, ‘Hooke's Development of Bacon's Science’, Actes du Dixiéme Congrés International d'Histoire des Sciences, Ithaca, 1962 (Paris, 1964), 1,265–68; Mary Hesse, ‘Hooke's Philosophical Algebra’, Isis, 57 (1966), 69–82; D.R. Oldroyd, ‘Robert Hooke's Methodology of Science as Exemplified in his “Discourse of Earthquakes’”, The British Journal for the History of Science, 6 (1972), 109–30; D.R. Oldroyd, ‘Some “Philosophical Scribbles” attributed to Robert Hooke’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 35 (1980), 17–32; David Oldroyd, The Arch of Knowledge (Methuen, New York, 1986), pp. D.R. Oldroyd, ‘Some Writings of Robert Hooke on Procedures for the Prosecution of Scientific Enquiry, including his “Lectures of Things Requisite to a Natural History’”, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 41 (1987), 145–67; B.R. Singer, ‘Robert Hooke on Memory, Association and Time Perception’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 31 ((1976), 115–31; Patri Pugliese, ‘The Scientific Achievement of Robert Hooke’ (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1982), p. 50 ff.
3. Locke , John . 1975 . An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 10 Oxford edited by Peter H. Nidditch, p.