Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe: 53 (Library of the Written Word) - Hardcover

Alberto Cevolini

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 900427846X ISBN 13: 9789004278462

Publisher: BRILL, 2016

Synopsis

Forgetting Machines. Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe investigates the evolution of scholarly practices and the transformation of cognitive habits in the early modern age, focussing on the development of note-taking systems and data storage devices.

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Review

"The present volume collects a cohesive series of essays, many advancing key results of scholarship unavailable in English, about the development and significance of knowledge management systems from antiquity to the eighteenth century, along with several well-integrated more contemporary case studies. [...] The volume's learned essays demonstrate how seriously we should take forms of note taking as constitutive of, not ancillary to, intellectual history and the history of science from antiquity to the present."
Matthew L. Jones, Columbia University. In: Isis, Vol. 109, No 4 (December 2018), pp. 852-853.

About the Author

Alberto Cevolini is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Knowledge at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He has published books and many articles in the field of intellectual history and knowledge management evolution in early modern Europe, including De arte excerpendi. Imparare a dimenticare nella modernità (Leo S. Olschki, 2006).

Edition details

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 900427846X
• ISBN 13: 9789004278462
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 406