1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000904230203316

Autore

PARKER, Deborah

Titolo

Commentary and ideology : Dante in the Renaissance / Deborah Parker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke university press, 1993

ISBN

0-8223-1281-6

Descrizione fisica

XII, 248 p. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

851.1

Soggetti

Alighieri, Dante - Divina Commedia

Collocazione

VI.2.B. 9(V F ROM C 102)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002072989707536

Autore

Levesque, Katia

Titolo

La Créolité: Entre Tradition d'Oraliture Créole et Tradition Littéraire Française / Katia Levesque

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Québec : Nota Bene, c2004

ISBN

2895181527

Descrizione fisica

190 p. , 23 cm

Collana

Études

Soggetti

Confiant, Raphaël Critica ed interpretazione

Confiant, Raphaël Critica ed interpretazione

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Contiene riferimenti bibliografici



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255454403321

Autore

Tympas Aristotle

Titolo

Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era : The Mechanical and Electrical Ages / / by Aristotle Tympas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Springer London : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

1-84882-742-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 243 p. 23 illus.)

Collana

History of Computing, , 2190-6831

Disciplina

004.09

Soggetti

Computers

History of Computing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Delights of the Slide Rule -- Lighting Calculations Lightened -- Like the Poor, the Harmonics Will Always Be With Us -- The Inner Satisfaction That Comes With Each Use of the Alignment Chart -- The Appearance of a Neatly Finished Box -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Although it is popularly assumed that the history of computing before the second half of the 20th century was unimportant, in fact the Industrial Revolution was made possible and even sustained by a parallel revolution in computing technology. An examination and historiographical assessment of key developments helps to show how the era of modern electronic computing proceeded from a continual computing revolution that had arisen during the mechanical and the electrical ages. This unique volume introduces the history of computing during the “first” (steam) and “second” (electricity) segments of the Industrial Revolution, revealing how this history was pivotal to the emergence of electronic computing and what many historians see as signifying a shift to a post-industrial society. It delves into critical developments before the electronic era, focusing on those of the mechanical era (from the emergence of the steam engine to that of the electric power network) and the electrical era (from the emergence of the electric power network to that of electronic computing). In so doing, it provides due attention to the demarcations between—and associated classifications of—artifacts for calculation during these respective eras. In turn, it emphasizes the history of comparisons



between these artifacts. Topics and Features: motivates exposition through a firm historiographical argument of important developments explores the history of the slide rule and its use in the context of electrification examines the roles of analyzers, graphs, and a whole range of computing artifacts hitherto placed under the allegedly inferior class of analog computers shows how the analog and the digital are really inseparable, with perceptions thereof depending on either a full or a restricted view of the computing process investigates socially situated comparisons of computing history, including the effects of a political economy of computing (one that takes into account cost and ownership of computing artifacts) assesses concealment of analog-machine labor through encasement (“black-boxing”) Historians of computing, as well as those of technology and science (especially, energy), will find this well-argued and presented history of calculation and computation in the mechanical and electrical eras an indispensable resource. The work is a natural textbook companion for history of computing courses, and will also appeal to the broader readership of curious computer scientists and engineers, as well as those who generally just have a yearn to learn the contextual background to the current digital age.