Article ID: CBB236932390

The Book and the Archive in the History of Science (2016)

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In recent years, the history of archives has opened up rich possibilities for understanding early modern science and medicine in material terms. Yet two strands of inquiry, vital to understanding the development of science and medicine as “paper knowledge,” have been left largely unpursued: the archiving of personal papers, as distinct from the formation of institutional archives; and the ways in which printed books and archival papers functioned in relation to each other. This essay brings these two strands to the forefront, considering in particular books published posthumously from the notes and correspondence left behind by Nicholas Culpeper, a popular mid-seventeenth-century English vernacular medical author, and John Ray, naturalist and Fellow of the Royal Society. Culpeper’s and Ray’s cases illustrate, in particular, the central role of women in preserving, circulating, and certifying the authenticity of medical and scientific papers and of any books published posthumously from them.

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Authors & Contributors
Wragge-Morley, Alexander
Trijp, Didi van
Svorenčík, Andrej
Constantinidou, Natasha
Walsby, Malcolm
Yale, Elizabeth E.
Concepts
Books
Natural history
Printing
Manuscripts
Libraries and archives
Medicine
Time Periods
17th century
Early modern
Renaissance
18th century
16th century
Modern
Places
Europe
England
Portugal
Italy
France
Great Britain
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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