User:Babbage/Kelly's Recursive Devices

For fun, I want to look up all these bits from Kevin Kelly's Listof "Recursive devices." I'm not sure why they're called "recursive." But the basic idea is that these are key devices and practices in the history of hte development of the Scientific method.

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Sorted together:
 * 1) 200 (280?) BC  — Cataloged Library of Alexandria: First text indexes
 * 2) 1000 —  Collaborative encyclopedia
 * 3) 1410 —  Cross-referenced Encyclopedia
 * 4) 1550 —  Invention of the Fact
 * 5) 1590 — Controlled experiment (Roger Bacon)
 * 6) 1600 — Laboratory
 * 7) 1609 — Telescopes (Galileo (for astronomy, anyway)) and microscopes (Galileo!)
 * 8) 1650 — Society of experts
 * 9) 1665 — Repeatability (Robert Boyle)
 * 10) 1665 — Scholarly journals
 * 11) 1675 — Peer review
 * 12) 1687 — Hypothesis/prediction (Isaac Newton)
 * 13) 1752 — Peer Review Referee
 * 14) 1780 —  Journal Network
 * 15) 1920 — Falsifiability (Karl Popper)
 * 16) 1926 — Randomized design (Ronald Fisher)
 * 17) 1937 — Controlled Placebo
 * 18) 1946 — Computer simulation
 * 19) 1950 — Double blind experiment
 * 20) 1962 — Study of scientific method (Thomas Kuhn)
 * 21) 1974 — Meta-analysis