Article ID: CBB001252942

The Sciences of the Archive (2012)

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Daston, Lorraine J. (Author)


Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 27, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 156-187


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of special issue “Clio Meets Science: The Challenges of History ”
Language: English

Since the mid-nineteenth century, classifications of knowledge have opposed the bookish, history-conscious humanities to the empirical, amnesiac sciences. Yet in the sciences of the archive, the library stands alongside the laboratory, the observatory, and the field as an important site of research. The sciences of the archive depend on data and specimens preserved by past observers and project the needs of future scientists in the creation of present collections. Starting in the early modern period, distinctive practices of weaving together the data of the archives and of present investigation have created a hybrid hermeneutics of reading and seeing.

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Article Golinski, Jan (2012) Is It Time to Forget Science? Reflections on Singular Science and Its History. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 19-36). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Luana Giurgevich
Gavinelli, Simona
Stefan Eminger
Elisabeth Loinig
Leitão, Henrique
Sánchez-Jáuregui, María Dolores
Concepts
Science, general histories
Libraries and archives
Collectors and collecting
Natural history
Religious orders
Specimens
Time Periods
Early modern
Modern
Medieval
Renaissance
18th century
Enlightenment
Places
Europe
Portugal
Austria
United Kingdom
Graz (Austria)
Cambridge (England)
Institutions
Oxford Botanic Garden
University of Oxford (UK)
Cambridge University
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