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When information came of age : technologies of knowledge in the age of reason and revolution, 1700-1850 /

"Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process. Its conceptual roots stretch back to the profound changes that occurred during the Age of Reason and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Headrick, Daniel R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Information and its history
  • Organizing information, the language of science
  • Transforming information, the origins of statistics
  • Displaying information, maps and graphs
  • Storing information, dictionaries and encyclopedias
  • Communicating information, postal and telegraphic systems
  • Information ages, past and present.