Introduction: third nature / Lorraine Daston
Nature's own canon: archives of the historical sciences. Astronomy after the deluge / Florence Hsia
The earth as archive: contingency, narrative, and the history of life / David Sepkoski
Empiricism in the library: medicine's case histories / Andrew Mendelsohn
Spanning the centuries: archives from ancient to modern. Archiving scientific ideas in Greco-Roman antiquity / Liba Taub
Ancient history in the age of archival research / Suzanne Marchand
The immortal archive: nineteenth-century science imagines the future / Lorraine Daston
Problems and politics: controversies in the global archive. The "data deluge": turning private data into public archives / Bruno J. Strasser
Evolutionary genetics and the politics of the human archive / Cathy Gere
Montage and metamorphosis: climatological data archiving and the U.S. National Climate Program / Vladimir Janković
The future of data: archives of the new millennium. Archives-of-self: the vicissitudes of time and self in a technologically determinist future / Rebecca Lemov
An archive of words / Daniel Rosenberg
Querying the archive: data mining from Apriori to Pagerank / Matthew L. Jones
Epilogue: the time of the archive / Lorraine Daston.