Science in the Archives

Author: Lorraine Daston
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022643253X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by geneticists; weather diaries trawled by climate scientists; libraries visited by historians. These are the vital collections, assembled and maintained over decades, centuries, and even millennia, which define the sciences of the archives. With Science in the Archives, Lorraine Daston and her co-authors offer the first study of the important role that these archives play in the natural and human sciences. Reaching across disciplines and centuries, contributors cover episodes in the history of astronomy, geology, genetics, philology, climatology, medicine, and more—as well as fundamental practices such as collecting, retrieval, and data mining. Chapters cover topics ranging from doxology in Greco-Roman Antiquity to NSA surveillance techniques of the twenty-first century. Thoroughly exploring the practices, politics, economics, and potential of the sciences of the archives, this volume reveals the essential historical dimension of the sciences, while also adding a much-needed long-term perspective to contemporary debates over the uses of Big Data in science.

Dark Archives

Author: Megan Rosenbloom
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717427
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark Archives—captivating and macabre in all the right ways—she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject.

Popular Science

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Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Uncertain Archives

Author: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262539888
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 638

Book Description
Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This pathbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate concepts relevant to critical studies of big data--arranged glossary style, from from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability--both challenging conventional usage of such often-used terms as prediction and objectivity and introducing such unfamiliar ones as overfitting and copynorm. The contributors include both leading researchers, including N. Katherine Hayles, Johanna Drucker and Lisa Gitelman, and such emerging agenda-setting scholars as Safiya Noble, Sarah T. Roberts and Nicole Starosielski.

Popular Science

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Languages : en
Pages : 290

Science in the Beginning

Author: Jay Wile
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ISBN: 9780989042406
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Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
Science in the context of the seven days of creation presented in the Bible. This textbook uses activities to reinforce scientific principles presented.

Archives of Science

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Languages : en
Pages : 88

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EC Archives: Weird Science Volume 4

Author: Various
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
ISBN: 1616556587
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
Volume 1 "collects Weird science #12-#15 and #5-#6, originally published between May 1950 and April 1951 by I. C. Publishing Co, Inc."--Copyright page.

The EC Archives: Incredible Science Fiction

Author: Jack Oleck
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506721095
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Incredible Science Fiction arrives in a strange new land: the Twenty-First Century! Fully remastered in magnificent digital color, this far-out volume includes twenty unbelievable tales from a stellar collection of writers and artists: Jack Oleck, Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Orlando, Jack Davis, Roy G. Krenkel, and Al Williamson. Featuring a foreword by Mark Evanier! • Incredible Science Fiction issues #30-#33 in full color! • Featuring a foreword from Mark Evanier! • Features stories written and drawn by all-star comic artists Jack Oleck, Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Orlando, Jack Davis, Roy G. Krenkel, and Al Williamson!

The EC Archives: Weird Science Volume 4

Author: Al Feldstein
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1630089532
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
Foreword by Paul Tobin! The Weird Science archives take flight at Dark Horse! This volume collects the complete Weird Science issues #19–#22 and Weird Science-Fantasy #23–#24 in glorious remastered color! Don’t miss any of the sci-fi classics from such visionary artists as Wally Wood, Al Feldstein, Harry Harrison, and Harvey Kurtzman! * Dark Horse reprints the famous science-fiction comic series!