Abstract This article argues that the copying of text and image was a key process in acquiring, approving, and recording knowledge in the early Royal Society of London. In particular, it focuses on how the administrative archives were set up and sustained in the nascent Society to preserve and establish new knowledge through a copying practice. Images were copied alongside texts to facilitate the collaborative scientific practice among the members of the Royal Society; to communicate essential features of an argument; to serve as proof of rare phenomena; and to establish priority for an invention or an idea. This copying practice was part of a unique system of emphasizing, prioritizing, and preserving for contemporary and future Fellows what was deemed important, ground-breaking, or useful knowledge.

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复制早期皇家学会档案中的图像

摘要本文认为，在早期的伦敦皇家学会中，文本和图像的复制是获取，批准和记录知识的关键过程。特别是，它侧重于如何在新生社会中建立和维护行政档案，以通过复制实践来保存和建立新知识。图片与文字一起复制，以促进皇家学会成员之间的合作科学实践；传达论点的基本特征；作为罕见现象的证明；并确定发明或想法的优先权。这种复制实践是一个独特的系统的一部分，该系统强调，优先考虑和保存当代和未来的研究员，这些都是重要的，开创性的或有用的知识。