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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/33
• Soggetto topico: Printing - Social aspects - Europe - History; Books - Social aspects - Europe - History
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Intellectual life
• Altri autori: RhodesNeil <1953-> SawdayJonathan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Renaissance computer
• ISBN: 1-134-59979-X; 0-203-46330-7; 1-134-59980-3; 1-280-54693-X; 9786610546930
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820025003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II