#notation systems

A small link list around a thing I keep circling without wanting to name too early: paper as an operative surface.

Markus Krajewski: Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548 to 1929

Sybille Krämer, ed.: Schriftbildlichkeit: Wahrnehmbarkeit, Materialität und Operativität von Notationen

Sybille Krämer: “Operationsraum Schrift”

Johanna Drucker: Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production

Ursula Klein: Experiments, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century

Ann M. Blair: Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age

Ann M. Blair: “Note Taking as an Art of Transmission”

Frederic L. Holmes, Jürgen Renn, and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, eds.: Reworking the Bench: Research Notebooks in the History of Science

Frederik Stjernfelt: Diagrammatology: An Investigation on the Borderlines of Phenomenology, Ontology, and Semiotics

I just came across this in a book and I'm a little obsessed. I love old descriptive notation systems for things we've since turned into computer-friendly numerical description.

E.g. Compass cards now are all split into 360 degrees.

E.g. Chess notation switched from the elegant descriptive notation ("pawn to queen's rook 6") to algebraic notation ("a7 to a6").