The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print.

Sawday, Jonathan and Neil Rhodes (eds. ):

ISBN 10: 0415220645 / ISBN 13: 9780415220644

Editore: Routledge., 2000

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XI, 212 S. / p. Leicht berieben und bestoßen, sonst tadelloser Zustand / Slightly rubbed and bumped, otherwise in perfect condition - CONTENTS -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- vii -- 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 -- Notes on contributors -- Further reading -- Index. ISBN 9780415220644 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 417.

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• Titolo: The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print.
• Editore: Routledge.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415220645
• ISBN 13: 9780415220644
• Rilegatura: kart. / Paperback.
• Condizione: Gut
• Peso: 417 grammi
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Riassunto

In the fifteenth century the printing press was the 'new technology'. The first ever information revolution began with the advent of the printed book, enabling Renaissance scholars to formulate new ways of organising and disseminating knowledge.
As early as 1500 there were already 20 million books in circulation in Europe. How did this rapid explosion of ideas impact upon the evolution of new disciplines?
The Renaissance Computer looks at the fascinating development of new methods of information storage and retrieval which took place at the very beginning of print culture. And it asks some crucial questions about the intellectual conditions of our own digital age. A dazzling array of leading experts in Renaissance culture explore topics of urgent significance today, including:
* the contribution of knowledge technologies to state formulation and national identity
*the effect of multimedia, orality and memory on education
*the importance of the visual display of information and how search engines reflect and direct ways of thinking.

Informazioni sull?autore

Neil Rhodes is Reader in English Literature at the university of St Andrews. His previous publications include The Power of Eloquence and English Renaissance Literature (1992), John Donne: Selected Prose (1987), and Elizabethan Grotesque (1980). Jonathan Sawday is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Strathclyde University. He is author of The Body Emblazoned (1995), and co-editor of Literature and the English Civil War.