Archival afterlives : life, death, and knowledge-making in early modern British scientific and medical archives / edited by Vera Keller, Anna Marie Roos, and Elizabeth Yale.

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2018.

xi, 276 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm.

The division of a paper kingdom : the tragic afterlives of Francis Bacon's manuscripts / Richard Serjeantson -- Scarlet letters : Sir Theodore de Mayerne and the early Stuart color world in the Royal Society / Vera Keller -- Accidental archive : Samuel Hartlib and the afterlife of female scholars / Carol Pal -- Fossilized remains : the Martin Lister and Edward Lhuyd ephemera / Anna Marie Roos -- Playing archival politics with Hans Sloane, Edward Lhuyd, and John Woodward / Elizabeth Yale -- Under Sloane's shadow : the archive of James Petiver / Arnold Hunt -- Collecting knowledge : annotated material in the library of Sir Hans Sloane / Alison Walker -- Collecting genomics : documenting modern, collaborative science / Victoria Sloyan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.