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Archival afterlives : life, death, and knowledge-making in early modern British scientific and medical archives /
"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, wit...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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| Series: | History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ;
v. 23. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
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.