The Renaissance computer : knowledge technology in the first age of print / edited by Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday.
Contributor(s): Rhodes, Neil | Sawday, Jonathan
Material type: TextPublisher: 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.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Reference | John Bulow Campbell Library | Reference | Z124.A5 R46 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 0182902310040 |
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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.