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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction: Third Nature / Daston, Lorraine -- I. Nature's Own Canon: Archives of the Historical Sciences -- 1. Astronomy after the Deluge / Hsia, Florence -- 2. The Earth as Archive: Contingency, Narrative, and the History of Life / Sepkoski, David -- 3. Empiricism in the Library: Medicine's Case Histories / Mendelsohn, J. Andrew -- II. Spanning the Centuries: Archives from Ancient to Modern -- 4. Archiving Scientific Ideas in Greco- Roman Antiquity / Taub, Liba -- 5. Ancient History in the Age of Archival Research / Marchand, Suzanne -- 6. The Immortal Archive: Nineteenth- Century Science Imagines the Future / Daston, Lorraine -- III. Problems and Politics: Controversies in the Global Archive -- 7. The "Data Deluge": Turning Private Data into Public Archives / Strasser, Bruno J. -- 8. Evolutionary Genetics and the Politics of the Human Archive / Gere, Cathy -- 9. Montage and Metamorphosis: Climatological Data Archiving and the U.S. National Climate Program / Janković, Vladimir -- IV. The Future of Data: Archives of the New Millennium -- 10. Archives- of- Self: The Vicissitudes of Time and Self in a Technologically Determinist Future / Lemov, Rebecca -- 11. An Archive of Words / Rosenberg, Daniel -- 12. Querying the Archive: Data Mining from Apriori to PageRank / Jones, Matthew L. -- Epilogue: The Time of the Archive / Daston, Lorraine -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index
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