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The Renaissance computer : knowledge technology in the first age of print /

Some of today's foremost Renaissance scholars look afresh at the remarkable products of the first age of print and explore how these anticipated many of the conditions of the present digital age.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rhodes, Neil, 1953-, Sawday, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Paperworlds: imagining the Renaissance computer / Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday
  • The silence of the archive and the noise of cyberspace / Leah S. Marcus
  • Towards the Renaissance computer / Jonathan Sawday
  • From trivium to quadrivium: Ramus, method, and mathematical technology / Timothy J. Reiss
  • Textual icons: reading early modern illustrations / Stephen Orgel
  • The early modern search engine: indices, title pages, marginalia, and contents / Thomas N. Corns
  • National and international knowledge: the limits of the histories of nations / Andrew Hadfield
  • Arachne's web: intertextual mythography and the Renaissance Actaeon / Sarah Annes Brown
  • The daughters of memory: Thomas Heywood's Gunaikeion and the female computer / Nonna Crook and Neil Rhodes
  • Pierre de La Primaudaye's French academy: growing encyclopaedic / Anne Lake Prescott
  • In the wilderness of forms: ideas and things in Thomas Browne's cabinets of curiosity / Claire Preston
  • Articulate networks: the self, the book, and the world / Neil Rhodes.