Science in the archives pasts, presents, futures / edited by Lorraine Daston.

Other author Daston, Lorraine, 1951-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2017]
Descriptionviii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Subjects
Scientific archives.
Scientific archives--History.
Science--History.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 335-379) and index.
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LCCN 2016028698
ISBN9780226432229 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226432366 (pbk. : alk. paper)