Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print Book

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	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction: Paperworlds: Imagining the Renaissance Computer	1
2	The Silence of the Archive and the Noise of Cyberspace	18
3	Towards the Renaissance Computer	29
4	From Trivium to Quadrivium: Ramus, Method and Mathematical Technology	45
5	Textual Icons: Reading Early Modern Illustrations	59
6	The Early Modern Search Engine: Indices, Title Pages, Marginalia and Contents	95
7	National and International Knowledge: the Limits of the Histories of Nations	106
8	Arachne's Web: Intertextual Mythography and the Renaissance Actaeon	120
9	The Daughters of Memory: Thomas Heywood's Gunaikeion and the Female Computer	135
10	Pierre de La Primaudaye's French Academy: Growing Encyclopaedic	157
11	In the Wilderness of Forms: Ideas and Things in Thomas Browne's Cabinets of Curiosity	170
12	Articulate Networks: the Self, the Book and the World	184
	Notes on contributors	197
	Further reading	199
	Index	207