Archival afterlives : life, death, and knowledge-making in early modern British scientific and medical archives /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : color illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions ; volume 23 History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 23.
Subject:	Scientific archives -- Great Britain -- History. Medical archives -- Great Britain -- History. Medical archives. Scientific archives. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Archives & Special Libraries Medical archives. Scientific archives. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Archives & Special Libraries. Great Britain. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12484304

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Other authors / contributors:	Keller, Vera, 1978- editor. Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor, editor. Yale, Elizabeth, editor.
ISBN:	9789004324305 9004324305 9789004324299 9004324291
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Archival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes of scientific and medical archives in early modern Britain. If early modern natural philosophers claimed all knowledge as their province, theirs was a paper empire. But how and why did naturalists engage with archives, and in particular, with the papers of their dead predecessors? This volume makes a firm case for expanding what counts as scientific labour, integrating scribes, archivist, library keepers, editors, and friends and family of deceased naturalists into the history of science. It shows how early modern natural philosophers pursued new natural knowledge in dialogue with their recent material past. Finally, it demonstrates the sustaining importance of archival institutions in the growth and development of the 'New Sciences.'"--
Other form:	Print version: Archival afterlives. Leiden ; Boston : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2018] 9004324291 9789004324299

Table of Contents:

The division of a paper kingdom : the tragic afterlives of Francis Bacon's manuscripts / Richard Serjeantson
Scarlet letters : Sir Theodore de Mayerne and the early Stuart color world in the Royal Society / Vera Keller
Accidental archive : Samuel Hartlib and the afterlife of female scholars / Carol Pal
Fossilized remains : the Martin Lister and Edward Lhuyd ephemera / Anna Marie Roos
Playing archival politics with Hans Sloane, Edward Lhuyd, and John Woodward / Elizabeth Yale
Under Sloane's shadow : the archive of James Petiver / Arnold Hunt
Collecting knowledge : annotated material in the library of Sir Hans Sloane / Alison Walker
Collecting genomics : documenting modern, collaborative science / Victoria Sloyan.

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