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UNINA9910820025003321 |
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Titolo |
The Renaissance computer : knowledge technology in the first age of print / / edited by Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-59979-X |
0-203-46330-7 |
1-134-59980-3 |
1-280-54693-X |
9786610546930 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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RhodesNeil <1953-> |
SawdayJonathan |
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Disciplina |
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Printing - Social aspects - Europe - History |
Books - Social aspects - Europe - History |
Europe Intellectual life |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Some of today's foremost Renaissance scholars look afresh at the remarkable products of the first age of print and explore how these |
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