The Sciences of the Archive
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorraine Daston (0000-0002-0372-4747, Max Planck Society, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 156-187 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/667826 |
| OpenAlex | W2045882669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 19 |
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
Hermeneutics · History and Developments in Astronomy · History of Science and Medicine · History of Science and Natural History
Translating Time
How Astronomers Digitized the Sky
For Science, Broadcasting, and Conservation
Archival Traces of Applied Research
Making Archives in Early Modern Europe
Words and Numbers
AI as an Epistemic Technology
Jason y los argonautas
Documenting Sea Change
Imaging a black hole shadow through the Event Horizon Telescope
No More Heroes
Engaging with archival texts
Are the things really burnt
From French Indochina to Paris and back again
La logistique des savoirs
Whole Parts
Towards future archives and historiographies of ‘big biology’
Translating Medicine, ca. 800–1900
Reading Communities and Hippocratism in Hellenistic Medicine
Loyal Workers and Distinguished Scholars
The proactive historian
The future historian
Saving the gene pool for the future
The global lexicostatistical database
The living record
History as a biomedical matter
Preserving Public Broadcasting Archives in the Digital Era
The stuff of memories
Beschriften, Wiederfinden und Reaktivieren
Landscapes of Time
Evidentiary Authority as a System
Reconstructing the Ottoman Greek World
The field and its prosthesis
Ancient lore with modern appliances’
Trackable life
Listening to the Archive
Capturing Empire Through the Lens
Impressions of Plants Themselves
In search of 'extra data
The Right Time for the Job? Insights into Practices of Time in Contemporary Field Sciences
Ark and Archive
Men in Groups
The History and Political Economy of Personal Data over the Last Two Centuries in Three Acts
The Biggest Data of All
A Paper Machine of Clinical Research in the Early Twentieth Century
Hydraulic society and a 'stupid little fish
Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
An Intellectual Biography
The Fate of the Mammoth
Note Taking as an Art of Transmission
The unpublished manuscript
Testimony
Picturing the Book of Nature
Imagined communities
Laboratories, Museums, and the Comparative Perspective
Humanist Methods in Natural Philosophy
Between Memory and Paperbooks
A Social History of Truth
Type Specimens and Scientific Memory
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,83 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |