Harrison, Thomas (Author)
Cevolini, Alberto (Editor)
Knowledge management and production is performed today by means of search engines. This implies the use of machines as external memories. For sure, computer is the most successful device. However, it is neither the first nor the only one. Indeed, the use of secondary memories is an essential feature of modern age, and involves archives and filing cabinets too. The present book is the first critical edition of the manuscript in which Thomas Harrison sketched an extraordinary invention: the Ark of Studies (ca. 1640). The Ark of Studies is the first filing cabinet based on alphabetically arranged removable entries that has been designed for scholarly purposes in the 17th Century. Regarding its structure and function, this filing cabinet may be regarded as the most relevant scholarly machine in the modern age before the invention of the Web. The introductory essay tries to explain how it was possible that a high improbable deviation -that is, to entrust memorable knowledge to a machine rather than to consciousness, out of which it could be retrieved only by means of a combinatory art- became normal.
...MoreReview Richard Yeo (2020) Review of "The Ark of Studies". Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 295-304).
Review Barbara J. Shapiro (2020) Review of "The Ark of Studies". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 170-171).
Article
John Emrys Morgan;
(2017)
The Micro-Politics of Water Management in Early Modern England: Regulation and Representation in Commissions of Sewers
(/isis/citation/CBB322484821/)
Article
Keightley, Emily;
Pickering, Michael;
(2006)
For the record. Popular music and photography as technologies of memory
(/isis/citation/CBB001181266/)
Article
Fallan, Kjetil;
(2013)
Kombi-Nation: Mini Bicycles as Moving Memories
(/isis/citation/CBB001201123/)
Book
Gerovitch, Slava;
(2015)
Soviet Space Mythologies: Public Images, Private Memories, and the Making of a Cultural Identity
(/isis/citation/CBB001553241/)
Book
Sherman, Claire Richter;
(2001)
Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
(/isis/citation/CBB000100309/)
Thesis
Jorgensen, Larry M.;
(2007)
Continuity and Consciousness in Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind
(/isis/citation/CBB001561521/)
Chapter
Petrescu, Lucian;
(2009)
Descartes and the Internal Senses. On Memory and Remembrance
(/isis/citation/CBB001021828/)
Book
Sean Silver;
(2015)
The Mind Is a Collection: Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought
(/isis/citation/CBB683914404/)
Article
Jorgensena, Larry M.;
(2011)
Leibniz on Memory and Consciousness
(/isis/citation/CBB001211007/)
Chapter
Yeo, Richard;
(2010)
Memory and Empirical Information: Samuel Hartlib, John Beale and Robert Boyle
(/isis/citation/CBB001031892/)
Book
Rossi, Paolo;
(2000)
Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language
(/isis/citation/CBB000101788/)
Article
Lewis, Rhodri;
(2009)
A Kind of Sagacity: Francis Bacon, the Ars Memoriae and the Pursuit of Natural Knowledge
(/isis/citation/CBB001023399/)
Book
Beecher, Donald;
Williams, Grant;
(2009)
Ars Reminiscendi: Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture
(/isis/citation/CBB000951612/)
Article
Yeo, Richard;
(2010)
Loose Notes and Capacious Memory: Robert Boyle's Note-Taking and Its Rationale
(/isis/citation/CBB001023392/)
Book
Gatti, Hilary;
(2002)
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance
(/isis/citation/CBB000301742/)
Article
Schäfer, Daniel;
(2003)
Gulliver Meets Descartes: Early Modern Concepts of Age-Related Memory Loss
(/isis/citation/CBB000340372/)
Chapter
Koji Kuwakino;
(2016)
From domus sapientiae to artes excerpendi: Lambert Schenkel’s De memoria (1593) and the Transformation of the Art of Memory
(/isis/citation/CBB740911531/)
Article
Devin Sanchez Curry;
(2018)
Cartesian Critters Can't Remember
(/isis/citation/CBB792819972/)
Article
Yeo, Richard;
(2007)
Between Memory and Paperbooks: Baconianism and Natural History in Seventeenth-Century England
(/isis/citation/CBB000771563/)
Article
Margherita Palumbo;
(2006)
Il 'lodevole artificio'. Trattati mnemotecnici nella biblioteca privata leibniziana
(/isis/citation/CBB403601884/)
Be the first to comment!