Archives of the Scientific Revolution: The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe

Contents: Introduction / Michael Hunter Celebration and conservation: the Galilean collection of the National Library of Florence / Massimo Bucciantini Archive refractions: Hartlib's papers and the workings of an intelligencer / Mark Greengrass Between erudition and science: the archive and correspondence network of Ismaël Bouillau / Robert A. Hatch Ireland as a laboratory: the archive of Sir William Petty / Frances Harris The archives of Christian Huygens and his editors / Joella Yoder The archive and consulti of Marcello Malpighi: some preliminary reflections / Domenico Bertoloni Meli Mapping the mind of Robert Boyle: the evidence of the Boyle papers / Michael Hunter A 'connected system'? The snare of a beautiful hand and the unity of Newton's archive / Rob Iliffe 'A chaos of jottings that I do not have the leisure to arrange and mark with headings': Leibniz's manuscript papers and their repository / James G. O'Hara Of records and grandeur: the archive of the Royal Society / Mordechai Fenigold Image versus reality: the archives of the French Académie des Sciences / Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyere and David Sturdy