User:Kognos

I am a clinical scientist, based in the UK. My professional interests are patient-reported outcomes and assessment of cognitive function. I am semi-retired, which gives me time to indulge other interests, such as sailing and contributing to Wikipedia and Wikimedia.

My contributions to WP/WM include history of science, history of navigation, maps, and architecture.

Created Pages
I have created the following pages:
 * Electronic patient-reported outcome: patient symptom diaries and questionnaires collected on tablets, smartphones, or using Interactive Voice Response
 * Johann Hasler: biography of a 16th-century Swiss theologian and physician who developed Galen's concept of heat and cold into the idea of a scale of temperature.
 * 1899 Yakutat Bay earthquakes: an account of a series of earthquakes in Alaska, notable for the degree of uplift that resulted.
 * International School of American Archeology and Ethnology in Mexico: a short-lived institution that was important in promoting scientific research relating to the archaeology and ethnology of Mexico and adjoining countries
 * George Robert Graham Conway (1873-1951): biography of a civil engineer and historian of Mexico.
 * James Smith Richardson: biography of the first Inspector of Ancient Monuments of Scotland.
 * William Harold Fritz: biography of an America/Canadian geologist.
 * Herbert Langford Warren (1857-1917): biography of a New England architect, founder of the School of Architecture at Harvard University.
 * Peter Shortland (1815-1888): biography of a Royal Navy officer noted for detailed surveys of the Atlantic coast of Canada, and for deep-water soundings preparatory to laying submarine cables.
 * Henry Charles Otter (1807-1876): biography of a Royal Navy officer who was an early surveyor of the Scottish coast.
 * HMS Shearwater (1837) A naval surveying ship in the 1840s.
 * Alfred Augustus Levi Caesar (1919-1995): Cambridge geographer who made contributions to wartime chart-making.
 * John Augustine Edgell: Hydrographer of the Navy 1932-1945
 * William Hewett (died 1840): Royal Navy officer who conducted the first comprehensive survey of the North Sea.
 * George Thomas (Master R.N.) (1781 – 1850): Early nautical surveyor of British waters.
 * Charles Gepp Robinson (1805-1875) Royal Navy officer who surveyed much of western Scotland.
 * Archibald Day (1899-1970): Hydrographer of the Navy 1950-1955.
 * The Hall, Bradford-on-Avon: Grade I listed mansion in Bradford-on Avon, Wiltshire.
 * Langton House, Bristol: A Jacobean merchant's house in Bristol, demolished 1906, but with elaborate interiors preserved at New Place, Shirrell Heath
 * Edward James Bedford (1810-1877) Royal Navy officer and surveyor, who worked largely in Scotland
 * HMS Lightning (1823) one of the Royal Navy's first steam-powered ships, a survey vessel for much of its life
 * Frederick Bullock (Royal Navy officer) (1788-1874) surveyor noted for his work in the Thames estuary
 * George Stuart Graham-Smith (1875-1950) biography of a pathologist and zoologist noted for his work on flies
 * Michael Atwell Slater (died 1842) Royal Navy officer and surveyor, who worked mainly in NE England and eastern Scotland
 * Adrian Henry Wardle Robinson (born 1925) geographer who worked on shallow water oceanography and the history of marine surveying
 * Edinburgh Channels: navigable channels through the sandbanks of the Thames Estuary
 * Edward Killwick Calver (1813-1892) Royal Navy officer and surveyor
 * John Edward Davis (Royal Navy officer) (1815-1877) surveyor and artist on the Ross expedition
 * Richard Hoskyn (1811-1873) Royal Navy officer and surveyor who discovered ancient Kaunos and surveyed much of Ireland
 * Arthur Guy Norris Wyatt (1893-1982) Hydrographer of the Navy 1945-1950.
 * Foley Charles Prendergast Vereker (1850-1900) Royal Navy officer and surveyor noted for his illustrations.
 * Mecia de Viladestes 15th-century Jewish cartographer from Mallorca
 * Commander W.E. May (1899-1989) Royal Navy officer, historian of compasses and navigation
 * Manoel Antônio Vital de Oliveira (1829-1867) Brazilian naval officer, known as the Father of Brazilian Hydrography
 * Charles Latham (photographer): biography of a noted early photographer of architecture and gardens

For Charles Latham, I have uploaded over a thousand of his photographs to Wikimedia Commons. Some of the houses he photographed have since been demolished, and for these, Latham's images are often the only photographic record, especially for the interiors.

Maps and Charts
I have worked with British Admiralty Charts, including scanning and uploading charts that I own or can borrow; locating and uploading image files in other archives and libraries; and categorizing image files that are already on Wikimedia. There are now over 3,000 images on Wikimedia Commons (out of about 3,500 charts published, although there is some duplication) dating from the early 19th Century to 1973. (Charts published from 1974 onward are subject to Crown Copyright, which expires 50 years after first publication.) They cover most parts of the world, and are categorized by the area covered and in many cases by the surveyor responsible for the chart.

I have uploaded a complete set of the Ordnance Survey Seventh Series maps of Great Britain (well almost, there was one full sheet uploaded before I started). This was the last series mapped at the one-inch scale before the introduction of 1:50,000 sheets. I have also uploaded a complete set of the quarter-inch maps of Great Britain, as well as many of the earlier Popular and New Popular series, some 1:25,000 maps, and some OS maps of Ireland.

Ordnance Survey published a number of archaeological and historical maps from the 1930s to the 1960s. I have scanned and uploaded the majority of these. I have also uploaded a number of geological maps. These are mainly taken from the geological literature - books, articles, and reports that are out-of-copyright.



I have been adding maps and charts into Wikipedia articles where these seem helpful, for example:
 * Ffestiniog Railway
 * Sea Cut (Scalby Beck)
 * Suez Canal
 * Monkland Canal
 * Hadrian's Wall
 * Antonine Wall
 * HMS Beagle
 * Scilly naval disaster of 1707
 * History of longitude
 * Hartlepool
 * Dunmail Raise
 * Virginia and Truckee Railroad
 * William Whewell
 * Balerno line
 * Phare de Tévennec
 * Sector light
 * Maputo
 * George Nares
 * Henry Kellett
 * Victoria Bridge (Montreal)
 * Ball's Pyramid
 * Deal Castle
 * Pierre François Péron
 * Thomas Hubbard Sumner
 * Campbell Island, New Zealand
 * HMS Alexandra (1875)
 * Ernest Mouchez
 * Jack Sound
 * Dublin Port
 * Frankland Group National Park
 * Port Adelaide
 * Öræfajökull
 * John Murray (Australian explorer)
 * Lyme Regis
 * Panama Canal
 * Edme-François Jomard
 * Kenneth Macaulay (minister)
 * Gunnbjörn's skerries
 * Saint Petersburg
 * Kobe
 * Great-circle navigation
 * Gnomonic projection
 * Port of Kolkata
 * Second voyage of HMS Beagle
 * Novorossiysk
 * Jordan Burn
 * Golfo Nuevo, surveyed by Robert Fitzroy

I have added detail and/or references to biographical articles for several of the surveyors responsible for charts and sailing directions, for example:
 * Thomas Forrest (navigator) (c.1729-c.1802)
 * Archibald Blair (1752-1815)
 * James Horsburgh (1762-1736)
 * Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie (1780-1850)
 * John Washington (1800-1863), Hydrographer of the Navy
 * Henry Mangles Denham (1800-1887)
 * Thomas Graves (1802-1856)
 * Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt (1811-1888)
 * Louis-Marie-François Tardy de Montravel (1811-1864)
 * F. W. L. Thomas (1812-1885)
 * Frederick Evans (1815-1885)
 * William Wharton (1843-1905)
 * Boyle Somerville (1863-1936)
 * George Stephen Ritchie1914-2012), Hydrographer of the Navy

Full-text links
Whenever possible, bibliographies should link to material that is freely available, that is well-indexed and not behind a paywall. When editing, I always try and find open full-text sources where these are available, and add links to them.

Sometimes a simple search will suffice, but a lot of old academic material is only available as scans of complete issues of journals, often in either the Internet Archive or Google Books. In these cases I will download the issue, extract the article, and upload it back to Internet Archive with subject tags specific to the article. I can then link to the article from the WP bibliography.

Sometimes I have the book and it is out of copyright, but I can't find it in any internet source. Then I will scan the book and upload to the Internet Archive. Here are some of the books and journals I have scanned and uploaded, then linked to in Wikipedia articles: The Gotch book was a very fortunate find. I was able to buy a broken copy of the book at a bargain price, But being broken was great for me, as it made it much easier to scan. It's a splendid, massive volume, folio, and the quality of the photographic reproductions for the time is excellent - Batsford were known for this, and Latham's photographs were well served. Now all I have to do is find Volume 2!
 * Cited in article Admiralty Charts
 * Cited in article about Wenlock Edge
 * Cited in articles about the authors, James Smith Richardson and Marguerite Wood.
 * Cited in articles about the authors, James Smith Richardson and Margaret E.B. Simpson
 * Cited in article about the author, James Phemister.
 * Cited in articles about the author, Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood, and the zoologist Edward S. Morse.
 * Cited in article about Eric Gill.
 * Cited in article about Ham House.
 * Cited in article about Kew Gardens.
 * Cited in article about Chichester Cathedral.
 * Cited in article about Wenlock Priory
 * Cited in article about Erskine Beveridge.
 * Cited in article about Thomas Francis Carter.
 * Cited in article about Frederick William Anderson (geologist).
 * Cited in articles about Marc Isambard Brunel, Samuel Bentham, Henry Maudslay, and the Portsmouth Block Mills.
 * Cited in article about Henry Maudslay
 * Cited in article about Langton House, Bristol
 * . Cited in article about Warkworth Castle
 * Cited in article about Rushton Triangular Lodge
 * Cited in article about Urquhart Castle
 * Cited in article about the Broch of Mousa
 * Cited in article on the Isles of Scilly
 * Cited in article about HMS Herald (1824)
 * cited in article on Selsey Bill
 * Cited in several areticles about scottish castles
 * Cited in articles about Deal Castle and Walmer Castle
 * Cited in artcle about William Mackay Mackenzie
 * Cited in article about Henry Jackson (Royal Navy officer)
 * Volume 1; Volume 2. Cited in several articles about featured buildings.
 * Cited in article about Charles Close
 * Cited in article about Joseph Ellison Portlock
 * Cited in article about Aigues-Mortes
 * Eighth Edition, 1927 Cited in article about Udny Yule
 * Cited in article abou Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
 * Cited in article about Charles Latham, the photographer of the book.

Images
I have uploaded lots of images to Wikimedia Commons: my own photos of buildings, landscapes, artworks, and a few people; and illustrations from old books and journals. Believing that a picture is worth a thousand words, I have added many of these to Wikipedia articles. Here's just a few of the articles:
 * Joseph Needham: biochemist, historian and sinologist.
 * Comb Ridge: geological feature in Utah, USA.
 * Organ Rock Formation: also in Utah.
 * Drakes Bay: the bay, just north of the San Francisco Bay, where Drake repaired his ships before setting off west on the next stage of his round-the-world voyage in 1579.
 * Imperial Shag: photographed landing on an island in the Beagle Channel.
 * Adela Breton: watercolour copies of the wall paintings of Mexican temples.
 * Saddell Bay: bay in Kintyre, Scotland.
 * Landmark Trust: a building preservation charity.
 * Robert Willis: Architectural and engineering drawings from the 19th century
 * Derek J. de Solla Price: Information scientist and historian of science.
 * George Nuttall: American-British bacteriologist and parasitologist.
 * Southwell Minster: a collegiate church in Nottinghamshire, England.

At Southwell, I have taken photographs of all the carved capitals and most of the sculpture of the chapter house. These were described by Pevsner in a 1945 book, The Leaves of Southwell. All these photos are on Commons, numbered to correspond with the scheme used by Pevsner.