Too much to know - Ann Blair
managing scholarly information before the modern age
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KORTE INHOUD
The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of 'information overload', yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European scholars to register complaints very similar to our own. The author examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as t...
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2010 Uitgever: Yale University Press 397 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0300165390 ISBN-13: 9780300165395Koop dit boek tweedehands
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