Archives of the scientific revolution : the formation and exchange of ideas in seventeenth-century Europe / edited by Michael Hunter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Christian Huygens and his editors / Joella Yoder -- The archive 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 / Rob Iliffe -- 'A chaos of jottings that I do not have the leisure to arrange and mark with headings' : Leibniz's manuscript papers and their repostory / James G. O'Hara -- Of records and grandeur : the archive of the Royal Society / Mordechai Fenigold -- Image versus reality : the archives of the French Académie des Sciences / Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyere and David Sturdy