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Science in the Archives : Pasts, Presents, Futures.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (469 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226432533
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Science in the ArchivesDDC classification:
  • 026/.5
LOC classification:
  • Q224
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Third Nature / Lorraine Daston -- I. Nature's Own Canon: Archives of the Historical Sciences -- 1. Astronomy after the Deluge / Florence Hsia -- 2. The Earth as Archive: Contingency, Narrative, and the History of Life / David Sepkoski -- 3. Empiricism in the Library: Medicine's Case Histories / J. Andrew Mendelsohn -- II. Spanning the Centuries: Archives from Ancient to Modern -- 4. Archiving Scientific Ideas in Greco-Roman Antiquity / Liba Taub -- 5. Ancient History in the Age of Archival Research / Suzanne Marchand -- 6. The Immortal Archive: Nineteenth-Century Science Imagines the Future / Lorraine Daston -- III. Problems and Politics: Controversies in the Global Archive -- 7. The "Data Deluge": Turning Private Data into Public Archives / Bruno J. Strasser -- 8. Evolutionary Genetics and the Politics of the Human Archive / Cathy Gere -- 9. Montage and Metamorphosis: Climatological Data Archiving and the US National Climate Program / Vladimir Janković -- IV. The Future of Data: Archives of the New Millennium -- 10. Archives-of-Self: The Vicissitudes of Time and Self in a Technologically Determinist Future / Rebecca Lemov -- 11. An Archive of Words / Daniel Rosenberg -- 12. Querying the Archive: Data Mining from Apriori to PageRank / Matthew L. Jones -- Epilogue: The Time of the Archive / Lorraine Daston -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Third Nature / Lorraine Daston -- I. Nature's Own Canon: Archives of the Historical Sciences -- 1. Astronomy after the Deluge / Florence Hsia -- 2. The Earth as Archive: Contingency, Narrative, and the History of Life / David Sepkoski -- 3. Empiricism in the Library: Medicine's Case Histories / J. Andrew Mendelsohn -- II. Spanning the Centuries: Archives from Ancient to Modern -- 4. Archiving Scientific Ideas in Greco-Roman Antiquity / Liba Taub -- 5. Ancient History in the Age of Archival Research / Suzanne Marchand -- 6. The Immortal Archive: Nineteenth-Century Science Imagines the Future / Lorraine Daston -- III. Problems and Politics: Controversies in the Global Archive -- 7. The "Data Deluge": Turning Private Data into Public Archives / Bruno J. Strasser -- 8. Evolutionary Genetics and the Politics of the Human Archive / Cathy Gere -- 9. Montage and Metamorphosis: Climatological Data Archiving and the US National Climate Program / Vladimir Janković -- IV. The Future of Data: Archives of the New Millennium -- 10. Archives-of-Self: The Vicissitudes of Time and Self in a Technologically Determinist Future / Rebecca Lemov -- 11. An Archive of Words / Daniel Rosenberg -- 12. Querying the Archive: Data Mining from Apriori to PageRank / Matthew L. Jones -- Epilogue: The Time of the Archive / Lorraine Daston -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.

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