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Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by geneticists; weather diaries trawled by climate scientists; libraries visited by historians. These are the vital collections, assembled and maintained over decades, centuries, and even millennia, which define the sciences of the archives.
With Science in the Archives, Lorraine Daston and her co-authors offer the first study of the important role that these archives play in the natural and human sciences. Reaching across disciplines and centuries, contributors cover episodes in the history of astronomy, geology, genetics, philology, climatology, medicine, and more—as well as fundamental practices such as collecting, retrieval, and data mining. Chapters cover topics ranging from doxology in Greco-Roman Antiquity to NSA surveillance techniques of the twenty-first century. Thoroughly exploring the practices, politics, economics, and potential of the sciences of the archives, this volume reveals the essential historical dimension of the sciences, while also adding a much-needed long-term perspective to contemporary debates over the uses of Big Data in science.
With Science in the Archives, Lorraine Daston and her co-authors offer the first study of the important role that these archives play in the natural and human sciences. Reaching across disciplines and centuries, contributors cover episodes in the history of astronomy, geology, genetics, philology, climatology, medicine, and more—as well as fundamental practices such as collecting, retrieval, and data mining. Chapters cover topics ranging from doxology in Greco-Roman Antiquity to NSA surveillance techniques of the twenty-first century. Thoroughly exploring the practices, politics, economics, and potential of the sciences of the archives, this volume reveals the essential historical dimension of the sciences, while also adding a much-needed long-term perspective to contemporary debates over the uses of Big Data in science.
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2017Print ISBN
9780226432366, 9780226432229eBook ISBN
9780226432533Contributors
Lorraine Daston
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
14195 Berlin
Germany
Cathy Gere
Department of History
University of California—San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
Florence Hsia
Department of the History of Science
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Madison, WI 53706
Vladimir Janković
Faculty of Life Sciences
The University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom
Matthew L. Jones
Department of History
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
Rebecca Lemov
Department of the History of Science
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138
Suzanne Marchand
Department of Comparative Literature
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
J. Andrew Mendelsohn
Department of History
Queen Mary, University of London
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
Daniel Rosenberg
Robert D. Clark Honors College
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
David Sepkoski
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
14195 Berlin
Germany
Bruno J. Strasser
Section of Biology
University of Geneva
1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
Liba Taub
Whipple Museum Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB2 3RH
United Kingdom
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Third Nature
- I. Nature’s Own Canon: Archives of the Historical Sciences
- II. Spanning the Centuries: Archives from Ancient to Modern
- III. Problems and Politics: Controversies in the Global Archive
- IV. The Future of Data: Archives of the New Millennium
- Contributors