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22%OFFLorraine Daston (Ed.) - Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures - 9780226432366 - V9780226432366
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Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures

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Description for Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures Paperback. Editor(s): Daston, Lorraine. Num Pages: 392 pages, 25 halftones, 11 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
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; case histories published in medical journals; weather diaries and data silos trawled by climate scientists; libraries visited by historians. These are the vital collections, assembled and maintained over millennia, which define the sciences of the archives. With Science in the Archives, Lorraine Daston offers the first study of the important role that these archives play in the natural ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226432366
SKU
V9780226432366
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About Lorraine Daston (Ed.)
Lorraine Daston is director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and is visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Reviews for Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures
The twelve essays in this elegantly crafted volume explore, as editor Lorraine Daston puts it, 'how the sciences choose to remember past findings and plan future research.' They look at ways in which scholars have preserved and ordered scientific knowledge from antiquity to the present....[T]he book raises important historical questions about how scholars know what has been done in the ... Read more

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