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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rhodes, Neil, 1953-

Sawday, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing--Social aspects--Europe--History.

Printing.

Books--Social aspects--Europe--History.

Books.

Europe--Intellectual life.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction Paperworlds: Imagining the Renaissance Computer; The Silence of the Archive and the Noise of Cyberspace; Towards the Renaissance Computer; From Trivium to Quadrivium: Ramus, Method and Mathematical Technology; Textual Icons: Reading Early Modern Illustrations; The Early Modern Search Engine: Indices, Title Pages, Marginalia and Contents; National and International Knowledge: the Limits of the Histories of Nations; Arachne's Web: Intertextual Mythography and the Renaissance Actaeon

The Daughters of Memory: Thomas Heywood's Gunaikeion and the Female ComputerPierre de La Primaudaye's French Academy: Growing Encyclopaedic; In the Wilderness of Forms: Ideas and Things in Thomas Browne's Cabinets of Curiosity; Articulate Networks: the Self, the Book and the World; Notes on contributors; Further reading; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-59979-X

0-203-46330-7

1-134-59980-3

1-280-54693-X

9786610546930

9780203463307

OCLC:

70756756