Archival afterlives. Life, death, and knowledge-making in early modern British scientific and medical archives / / Vera Keller; Anna Marie Roos; Elizabeth Yale.

• Superior document: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions ; 23
• TeilnehmendeR: Keller, Vera.; Roos, Anna Marie.; Yale, Elizabeth.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright --; Acknowledgements --; Contributors --; Introduction /; The Division of a Paper Kingdom: The Tragic Afterlives of Francis Bacon’s Manuscripts /; Scarlet Letters: Sir Theodore de Mayerne and the Early Stuart Color World in the Royal Society /; Accidental Archive: Samuel Hartlib and the Afterlife of Female Scholars /; Fossilized Remains: The Martin Lister and Edward Lhuyd Ephemera /; Playing Archival Politics with Hans Sloane, Edward Lhuyd, and John Woodward /; Under Sloane’s Shadow: The Archive of James Petiver /; Collecting Knowledge: Annotated Material in the Library of Sir Hans Sloane /; Collecting Genomics: Documenting Modern, Collaborative Science /; Afterword /
• ISBN: 9004324305
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Vera Keller; Anna Marie Roos; Elizabeth Yale.

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.” Contributors are: Arnold Hunt, Michael Hunter, Vera Keller, Carol Pal, Anna Marie Roos, Richard Serjeantson, Victoria Sloyan, Alison Walker, and Elizabeth Yale.