Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. Introduction: Third Nature 1
5. I. Nature’s Own Canon: Archives of the Historical Sciences
6. 1. Astronomy after the Deluge 17
7. 2. The Earth as Archive: Contingency, Narrative, and the History of Life 53
8. 3. Empiricism in the Library: Medicine’s Case Histories 85
9. II. Spanning the Centuries: Archives from Ancient to Modern
10. 4. Archiving Scientific Ideas in Greco- Roman Antiquity 113
11. 5. Ancient History in the Age of Archival Research 137
12. 6. The Immortal Archive: Nineteenth- Century Science Imagines the Future 159
13. III. Problems and Politics: Controversies in the Global Archive
14. 7. The “Data Deluge”: Turning Private Data into Public Archives 185
15. 8. Evolutionary Genetics and the Politics of the Human Archive 203
16. 9. Montage and Metamorphosis: Climatological Data Archiving and the U.S. National Climate Program 223
17. IV. The Future of Data: Archives of the New Millennium
18. 10. Archives- of- Self: The Vicissitudes of Time and Self in a Technologically Determinist Future 247
19. 11. An Archive of Words 271
20. 12. Querying the Archive: Data Mining from Apriori to PageRank 311
21. Epilogue: The Time of the Archive 329
22. Contributors 333
23. Bibliography 335
24. Index 381