The Notebook - A History of Thinking on Paper

The simple act of moving pen across paper has been our most valuable tool for thinking for eight hundred years - from the wonders of the renaissance in Da Vinci's sketchbooks to the scientific breakthroughs recorded in Marie Curie's still-radioactive notebooks. Blank ledgers revolutionised trade in medieval Italy, while seafarers' logbooks charted new horizons in the Age of Discovery. Agatha Christie plotted a hundred murders in her exercise books, and nurses today use diaries to ease the traumatic recovery of coma patients.

Rich, absorbing and wholly original, The Notebook reveals the surprising and profound influence that blank pages have had on art, science, our past and our future.

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