For reading, if you are really curious about some of this early history, I can recommend this book. It is "Mendeleev's Dream."

关于阅读，如果你们真的对,早期的历史很感兴趣的话，我向你们推荐这本书，叫做门捷列夫的梦想“

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The text into which any early modern seventeenth-century writer would jot his or her thoughts into, his reading notes, was always called a commonplace book.

他的阅读笔记,那是许多早期的十七世纪现代作家都会深深思考的笔记，它常常被称为一本普通的书。

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