We are so accustomed to use digital memories as data storage devices, that we are oblivious to the improbability of such a practice. Habit hides what we habitually use. To understand the worldwide success of archives and card indexing systems that allow to remember more because they allow to forget more than before, the evolution of scholarly practices and the transformation of cognitive habits in the early modern age must be investigated. This volume contains contributions by nearly every distinguished scholar in the field of early modern knowledge management and filing systems, and offers a remarkable synthesis of the present state of scholarship. A final section explores some current issues in record-keeping and note-taking systems, and provides valuable cues for future research.
...MoreReview Matthew L. Jones (2018) Review of "Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 852-853).
Chapter Elena Esposito (2016) Tools to Remember an Ever-Changing Past. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 335-344).
Chapter Helmut Zedelmaier (2016) Christoph Just Udenius and the German ars excerpendi around 1700: On the Flourishing and Disappearance of a Pedagogical Genre. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 79-104).
Chapter Johannes F.K. Schmidt (2016) Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: Thinking Tool, Communication Partner, Publication Machine. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 287-311).
Chapter Élisabeth Décultot (2016) The Art of Excerpting in the Eighteenth Century Literature: Subversion and Continuity of an Old Scholarly Practice. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 105-127).
Chapter Markus Krajewski (2016) Note-Keeping: History, Theory, Practice of a Counter-Measurement against Forgetting. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 312-334).
Chapter José Aragüés Aldaz (2016) The ‘White Book’ of Miguel de Salinas: Design, Matter, and Destiny of a codex excerptorius. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 209-223).
Chapter Koji Kuwakino (2016) From domus sapientiae to artes excerpendi: Lambert Schenkel’s De memoria (1593) and the Transformation of the Art of Memory. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 58-78).
Chapter Iveta Nakládalová (2016) Johann Amos Comenius: Early Modern Metaphysics of Knowledge and ars excerpendi. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 188-208).
Chapter Fabian Krämer (2016) Albrecht von Haller as an ‘Enlightened’ Reader-Observer. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 224-242).
Chapter Ann Blair (2016) Early Modern Attitudes toward the Delegation of Copying and Note-Taking. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 265-285).
Chapter Tiziano Dorandi (2016) Notebooks and Collections of Excerpts: Moments of ars excerpendi in the Greco-Roman World. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 35-57).
Chapter Richard Yeo (2016) Notebooks, Recollection, and External Memory: Some Early Modern English Ideas and Practices. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 128-154).
Chapter Alberto Cevolini (2016) Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 1-33).
Chapter Michael Stolberg (2016) Medical Note-Taking in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 243-264).
Chapter Alberto Cevolini (2016) Storing Expansions: Openness and Closure in Secondary Memories. In: Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 155-187).
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