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James Lovelock’s notes for a lecture about detecting life on other planets

James Lovelock’s notes for a lecture about detecting life on other planets

1966
James Lovelock’s early drafts of Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

James Lovelock’s early drafts of Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

1970
James Lovelock’s ‘Ideas’ notebook

James Lovelock’s ‘Ideas’ notebook

circa 2000
Notebook with handwritten notes, containing a variety of invention ideas, by James Lovelock, no date. Includes diagrams for a ‘heat of absorption detector’ and ‘gas tank sensor’, interspersed with some more playful ideas such as a ‘Dalek destroyer’. The notebook is a narrow spiral bound notebook; modern paper; ballpoint pen ink and pencil .

James Lovelock’s inventions notebook

Notebook belonging to James Lovelock whilst studying chemistry at the University of Manchester, 1939. Unable to read label on front cover as partially torn. Includes sketches; doodles; lecture notes, mostly on chemistry; diagrams. Pages titled 'Atomic Structure', 'Hydrogen', 'Coordination Compounds', plus many others. Pages at the back have been torn out. Ink and pencil; binding and front cover damaged; measurement of depth 24 mm, when open 376 mm (w).

Chemistry notebook of James Lovelock, whilst studying at the University of Manchester

1939