Table of Contents

`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

Reviews

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*