Inscribed, Coded, Archived: Digitizing Early Modern Medical Casebooks

What does it mean to make a new archive out of an old archive? This article describes how the Casebooks Project transformed thousands of consultations recorded by the seventeenth-century English astrologer-physicians, Simon Forman and Richard Napier, into the 'Casebooks Digital Edition'. A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lauren Kassell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2021-07-01
Series:Journal for the History of Knowledge
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Online Access:https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/31