>It's all scripted. Google books and archive.org have been great resources.
Do you use any off-browser tools to navigate archive.org / google books? if so which? or the web sites always sufficed?
>There's also a couple torrents of 17th-19th c. journal articles.
Could you expand a bit on this? This sounds very interesting for a project of mine! Where did you find torrents of 17th-19th c. journal articles? It sounds like the copyrights on these would have expired, did you find human curated database of this era journal articles? how comprehensive is it, all journals of this time span?
(one of the things I would like to do is map out the transition from alchemy to chemistry, for example WP states Lavoisier convinced the scientific community that sulphur was an element and not a compound, which sounds utterly bizarre for essentially all of us who were exposed to chemistry as a deductive system without the abductive reasoning that led to it)
>I've made my own sqlite databases from the meta information and ran ocr over them to make things searchable.
That is pretty amazing work!
> I'll be putting more of these tools in the repo and eventually put the search systems online for the general public. Google's navigation of annualised volumes is a joke so I'm going to do better.
Do you use any off-browser tools to navigate archive.org / google books? if so which? or the web sites always sufficed?
>There's also a couple torrents of 17th-19th c. journal articles.
Could you expand a bit on this? This sounds very interesting for a project of mine! Where did you find torrents of 17th-19th c. journal articles? It sounds like the copyrights on these would have expired, did you find human curated database of this era journal articles? how comprehensive is it, all journals of this time span?
(one of the things I would like to do is map out the transition from alchemy to chemistry, for example WP states Lavoisier convinced the scientific community that sulphur was an element and not a compound, which sounds utterly bizarre for essentially all of us who were exposed to chemistry as a deductive system without the abductive reasoning that led to it)
>I've made my own sqlite databases from the meta information and ran ocr over them to make things searchable.
That is pretty amazing work!
> I'll be putting more of these tools in the repo and eventually put the search systems online for the general public. Google's navigation of annualised volumes is a joke so I'm going to do better.
Where is this repo you mention?