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

Contributor(s): Rhodes, Neil, 1953- | Sawday, Jonathan
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000Description: xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415220645 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415220637 (hbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Printing -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History | Books -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History | Europe -- Intellectual lifeDDC classification: 303.48/33 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-206) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Paperworlds: imagining the Renaissance computer / Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday -- The silence of the archive and the noise of cyberspace / Leah S. Marcus -- Towards the Renaissance computer / Jonathan Sawday -- From trivium to quadrivium: Ramus, method and mathematical technology / Timothy J. Reiss -- Textual icons: reading early modern illustrations / Stephen Orgel -- The early modern search engine: indices, title pages, marginalia and contents / Thomas N. Corns -- National and international knowledge: the limits of the histories of nations / Andrew Hadfield -- Arachne's web: intertextual mythography and the Renaissance Actaeon / Sarah Annes Brown -- The daughters of memory: Thomas Heywood's Gunaikeion and the female computer / Nonna Crook and Neil Rhodes -- Pierre de La Primaudaye's French academy: growing encyclopaedic / Anne Lake Prescott -- In the wilderness of forms: ideas and things in Thomas Browne's cabinets of curiosity / Claire Preston -- Articulate networks: the self, the book and the world / Neil Rhodes.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Reference Reference John Bulow Campbell Library Reference Z124.A5 R46 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 0182902310040

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

Introduction: Paperworlds: imagining the Renaissance computer / Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday -- The silence of the archive and the noise of cyberspace / Leah S. Marcus -- Towards the Renaissance computer / Jonathan Sawday -- From trivium to quadrivium: Ramus, method and mathematical technology / Timothy J. Reiss -- Textual icons: reading early modern illustrations / Stephen Orgel -- The early modern search engine: indices, title pages, marginalia and contents / Thomas N. Corns -- National and international knowledge: the limits of the histories of nations / Andrew Hadfield -- Arachne's web: intertextual mythography and the Renaissance Actaeon / Sarah Annes Brown -- The daughters of memory: Thomas Heywood's Gunaikeion and the female computer / Nonna Crook and Neil Rhodes -- Pierre de La Primaudaye's French academy: growing encyclopaedic / Anne Lake Prescott -- In the wilderness of forms: ideas and things in Thomas Browne's cabinets of curiosity / Claire Preston -- Articulate networks: the self, the book and the world / Neil Rhodes.

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