# journal (record)

a book of pages where a person writes about events that occur over time

- Computed level: L18 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: lexicon  ·  Arena: definition

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [books](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-books.information), [page](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-page.sheet), [write](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-write.communication), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [event](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-event.occurrence), [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social)

**Through:** Pages are bound into a book and a person writes events on them as time goes, making a record

**Novel properties:**
- personal temporal narrative
- sequential documentation
- reflective continuity

## Examples
- Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Arundel records observations and ideas from 1478 to 1518 on 283 pages. *(history)*
- The captain of the USS Constitution logged daily events in the ship's logbook during its 1812 Pacific voyage. *(naval)*
- Marie Curie documented radium experiments in leather-bound notebooks stored at the Bibliothèque Nationale. *(science)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-journal.record.json*  
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