Manuscript collections created by the individuals and institutions who were responsible for the scientific revolution offer valuable evidence of the intellectual aspirations and working practices of the principal protagonists. This volume is the first to explore such archives, focusing on the ways in which ideas were formulated, stored and disseminated, and opening up understanding of the process of intellectual change. It analyses the characteristics and history of the archives of such leading intellectuals as Robert Boyle, Galileo Galilei, G.W. Leibniz, Isaac Newton and William Petty; also considered are the new scientific institutions founded at the time, the Royal Society and the Academie des Sciences. In each case, significant broader findings emerge concerning the nature and role of such holdings; an introductory essay discusses the interpretation and exploitation of archives.MICHAEL HUNTERis Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Contributors: MICHAEL HUNTER, MASSIMO BUCCIANTINI, MARK GREENGRASS, ROBERT A. HATCH, FRANCES HARRIS, JOELLA YODER, DOMENICO BERTOLONI MELI, ROB ILIFFE, JAMES G.
O'HARA, MORDECHAI FEINGOLD, CHRISTIANE DEMEULENAERE-DOUYRE, DAVID STURDY
Manuscript collections created by the individuals and institutions who were responsible for the scientific revolution offer valuable evidence of the intellectual aspirations and working practices of the principal protagonists. This volume is the first to explore such archives, focusing on the ways in which ideas were formulated, stored and disseminated, and opening up understanding of the process of intellectual change. It analyses the characteristics and history of the archives of such leading intellectuals as Robert Boyle, Galileo Galilei, G.W. Leibniz, Isaac Newton and William Petty; also considered are the new scientific institutions founded at the time, the Royal Society and the Academie des Sciences. In each case, significant broader findings emerge concerning the nature and role of such holdings; an introductory essay discusses the interpretation and exploitation of archives.MICHAEL HUNTERis Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Contributors: MICHAEL HUNTER, MASSIMO BUCCIANTINI, MARK GREENGRASS, ROBERT A. HATCH, FRANCES HARRIS, JOELLA YODER, DOMENICO BERTOLONI MELI, ROB ILIFFE, JAMES G.
O'HARA, MORDECHAI FEINGOLD, CHRISTIANE DEMEULENAERE-DOUYRE, DAVID STURDY
`Image versus Reality: the Archives of the French Académie des
Sciences' (with Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère). -
Introduction - Michael Hunter
Celebration and conservation: the Galilean collection of the
national library of Florence - Massimo Bucciantini
Archive refractions: Hartlib's papers and the workings of an
intelligencer - Mark Greengrass
Between erudition and science: the archive and correspondence
network of Ismaël Bouillau - Robert A. Hatch
Ireland as a laboratory: the archive of Sir William Petty - Frances
Harris
The archives of Christiaan Huygens and his editors - Joella G.
Yoder
The achive and Consulti of Marcello Malpighi: some preliminary
reflections - Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Mapping the mind of Robert Boyle: the evidence of the Boyle papers
- Michael Hunter
A `connected system'? The snare of a beautiful hand and the unity
of Newton's archive - Robert C Iliffe
`A chaos of jottings that I do not have the leisure to arrange and
mark with headings': Leibniz's manuscript papers and their
repositoryrepository - James G. O'Hara
Of records and grandeur: the archive of the royal society -
Mordechai Feingold
Image versus reality: the archives of the French Académie des
Sciences' (with David Sturdy) - Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyere
Excellently illuminates the history of seventeenth-century
scientific archives and the problems they present. JOURNAL OF
DOCUMENTATION The reader is left with a profound sense of the
fragility of archives, their great power for both revelation and
concealment, their complexity, and their individuality. This book
is an important contribution for allhistorians.
*ANNALS OF SCIENCE*
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
