Science in the archives : pasts, presents, futures /
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Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017. ©2017 |
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Description: | viii, 397 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11039679 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Third nature / Lorraine Daston
- I. 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 / J. Andrew Mendelsohn
- II. 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
- III. 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
- IV. 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.