ISBN:
9780415220637
,
0415220637
,
9780415220644
,
0415220645
,
0203463307
,
9780203463307
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 212 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Renaissance computer
DDC:
303.4833
Keywords:
Printing Social aspects
;
History
;
Europe
;
Books Social aspects
;
History
;
Europe
;
Imprimerie Aspect social
;
Histoire
;
Europe
;
Livres Aspect social
;
Histoire
;
Europe
;
Books Social aspects
;
History
;
Printing Social aspects
;
History
;
Books Social aspects
;
History
;
Printing Social aspects
;
History
;
COMPUTERS ; Information Technology
;
Printing ; Social aspects
;
History
;
Intellectual life
;
Europe Intellectual life
;
Europe Vie intellectuelle
;
Europe Intellectual life
;
Europe Intellectual life
;
Europe
;
Electronic books
;
Konferenzschrift 1998
;
Konferenzschrift 1998
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Paperworlds: imagining the Renaissance computer / Neil Rhodes and Jonathan SawdayThe 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index. - Description based on print version record
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