Title & Author:

The Renaissance computer : knowledge technology in the first age of print / edited by Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Description:

xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-206) and index.
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.

Summary:

This work looks at the development of new methods of information storage and retrieval which took place at the very beginning of print culture. It also asks some crucial questions about the intellectual conditions of our own digital age.

Resources:
Publisher description
Dawsonera

ISBN:

0415220637 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415220637 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415220645 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415220644 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203463307 (ebk.)
0203463307 (ebk.)

Subject:

Printing Social aspects Europe History.
Books Social aspects Europe History.
nyomdatörténet Európa történet
könyvtörténet Európa
szellemi élet Európa
Imprimerie Aspect social Europe Histoire.
Livres Aspect social Europe Histoire.
Intellectual life
Printing Social aspects
Wissensorganisation
Buchdruck
Informatietechnologie.
Boekdrukkunst.
Sociale aspecten.
Renaissance.
Europe Intellectual life.
Europe Vie intellectuelle.
Europe
Computer
Technology

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Rhodes, Neil, 1953-
Sawday, Jonathan.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215095
Call No.: Z124 .R4 2000
Status: Available