Archival afterlives. Life, death, and knowledge-making in early modern British scientific and medical archives / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions ; 23 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction / Vera Keller , Anna Marie Roos and Elizabeth Yale
- 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
- Afterword / Michael Hunter.