Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 213 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0203463307
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0415220645
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0415220637
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index
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""BOOK COVER""; ""HALF-TITLE""; ""TITLE""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""DEDICATION""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""1 INTRODUCTION""; ""From manuscript to print""; ""In search of books""; ""Print and the public arena""; ""The Renaissance computer""; ""Notes to Introduction""; ""2 THE SILENCE OF THE ARCHIVE AND THE NOISE OF CYBERSPACE""; ""Notes""; ""3 TOWARDS THE RENAISSANCE COMPUTER""; ""The reasoning engine""; ""The matrix""; ""The wonderful net""; ""The labours of Hercules""; ""Conclusion�replicability""; ""Notes""
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""4 FROM TRIVIUM TO QUADRIVIUM: RAMUS, METHOD, AND MATHEMATICAL TECHNOLOGY""""Notes""; ""5 TEXTUAL ICONS: READING EARLY MODERN ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""Notes""; ""6 THE EARLY MODERN SEARCH ENGINE: INDICES, TITLE PAGES, MARGINALIA AND CONTENTS""; ""Notes""; ""7 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL KNOWLEDGE: THE LIMITS OF THE HISTORIES OF NATIONS""; ""Globalization and the computer""; ""Printing the nation""; ""Conclusion: the project of Britain?""; ""Notes""; ""8 ARAGHNE�S WEB: INTERTEXTUAL MYTHOGRAPHY AND THE RENAISSANCE ACTAEON""; ""Notes""
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""9 THE DAUGHTERS OF MEMORY: THOMAS HEYWOOD�S GUNAIKEION AND THE FEMALE COMPUTER""""Notes""; ""10 PIERRE DE LA PRIMAUDAYE�S FRENCH ACADEMY: GROWING ENCYCLOPAEDIC""; ""Notes""; ""11 IN THE WILDERNESS OF FORMS: IDEAS AND THINGS IN THOMAS BROWNE�S CABINETS OF CURIOSITY""; ""The culture of collecting""; ""Early modern cabinets and museums""; ""Thomas Browne�s Cabinets of Curiosity""; ""Notes""; ""12 ARTICULATE NETWORKS: THE SELF, THE BOOK AND THE WORLD""; ""Notes""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""; ""FURTHER READING""; ""INDEX""
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415220637
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Renaissance Computer : Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print
Language:
English
