Book ID: CBB000101820

Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print (2000)

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Rhodes, Neil (Editor)
Sawday, Jonathan (Editor)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xi + 212 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Based on a symposium, The Renaissance Computer, 19-20 June 1998, at the University of St. Andrew. Contents: Neil Rhodes; Jonathan Sawday: Introduction: Paperworlds: Imagining the Renaissance computer. Leah S. Marcus: The silence of the archive and the noise of cyberspace. Jonathan Sawday: Towards the Renaissance computer. Timothy J. Reiss: From trivium to quadrivium: Ramus, method, and mathematical technology. Stephen Orgel: Textual icons: Reading early modern illustrations. Thomas N. Corns: The early modern search engine: Indices, title pages, marginalia, and contents. Andrew Hadfield: National and international knowledge: The limits of the histories of nations. Sarah Annes Brown: Arachne's web: Intertextual mythography and the Renaissance Actaeon. Nonna Crook; Neil Rhodes: The daughters of memory: Thomas Heywood's Gunaikeion and the female computer. Anne Lake Prescott: Pierre de La Primaudaye's French academy: Growing encyclopaedic. Claire Preston: In the wilderness of forms: Ideas and things in Thomas Browne's cabinets of curiosity. Neil Rhodes: Articulate networks: the self, the book, and the world.


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Authors & Contributors
Huang Xing
Stedall, Jacqueline
Wright, Tom
Sherman, Claire Richter
Ségal, Alain
Qian, Wei
Concepts
Printing
Western world, civilization and culture
Illustrations
Technology
Visual representation; visual communication
Iconography
Time Periods
Renaissance
16th century
Early modern
Medieval
15th century
17th century
Places
Europe
Portugal
Italy
China
Great Britain
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