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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455465503321

Autore

Headrick Daniel R

Titolo

When information came of age [[electronic resource] ] : technologies of knowledge in the age of reason and revolution, 1700-1850 / / Daniel R. Headrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

0-19-756164-0

1-280-47345-2

0-19-803108-4

1-4337-0026-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

306.4/2

Soggetti

Enlightenment

Information resources - Europe - History - 18th century

Information resources - Europe - History - 19th century

Learning and scholarship - Europe - History - 18th century

Learning and scholarship - Europe - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Europe Intellectual life 18th century

Europe Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Information and Its History; 2. Organizing Information: The Language of Science; 3. Transforming Information: The Origin of Statistics; 4. Displaying Information: Maps and Graphs; 5. Storing Information: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias; 6. Communicating Information: Postal and Telegraphic Systems; 7. Information Ages: Past and Present; Selected Bibliography; Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process. Its conceptual roots stretch back to the profound changes that occurred



during the Age of Reason and Revolution. 'When Information Came of Age' argues that the key to the present era lies in understanding the systems developed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to gather, store, transform, display and communicate information.