Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2017
Author
Editor: Lorraine Daston
Language
English
Number of Pages
397 pp.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
City
Chicago, IL
Region
Europe
United States
Library Type
Archives and Special Collections
STEM Libraries
Chronological Period
Ancient Period (pre 500)
1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1949
1950-1999
21st century
Annotation

Contents:

  • Introduction: third nature / Lorraine Daston
  • Nature's own canon: archives of the historical sciences. Astronomy after the deluge / Florence Hsia
  • The earth as archive: contingency, narrative, and the history of life / David Sepkoski
  • Empiricism in the library: medicine's case histories / Andrew Mendelsohn
  • Spanning the centuries: archives from ancient to modern. Archiving scientific ideas in Greco-Roman antiquity / Liba Taub
  • Ancient history in the age of archival research / Suzanne Marchand
  • The immortal archive: nineteenth-century science imagines the future / Lorraine Daston
  • Problems and politics: controversies in the global archive. The "data deluge": turning private data into public archives / Bruno J. Strasser
  • Evolutionary genetics and the politics of the human archive / Cathy Gere
  • Montage and metamorphosis: climatological data archiving and the U.S. National Climate Program / Vladimir Janković
  • The future of data: archives of the new millennium. Archives-of-self: the vicissitudes of time and self in a technologically determinist future / Rebecca Lemov
  • An archive of words / Daniel Rosenberg
  • Querying the archive: data mining from Apriori to Pagerank / Matthew L. Jones
  • Epilogue: the time of the archive / Lorraine Daston.
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