Too Much to Know

Ann M. Blair is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Harvard University.

出版者:Yale University Press

作者:Ann M. Blair

页数:416

出版时间:2010-11-30

价格:USD 45.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780300112511

图书标签:书籍史历史information文化史学习媒介信息管理信息

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 the Islamic world and China, then focuses particular attention on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe. She explores in detail the sophisticated and sometimes idiosyncratic techniques that scholars and readers developed in an era of new technology and exploding information.

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非常有见地的研究，第三章Note-Taking as Information Management可作为理解魏希德对唐宋笔记和类书相关论断的参考文章～

講的是early modern的reference book。當時的讀書人就已經在抱怨要讀的東西太多，把眼睛弄壞了、健康也壞了……。

Extraordinary ability to collect, analyze, and synthesize a great variety of sources, also frequently switching between the present and early modern.

thinking about this approach to "practice" - might it be near its end?

非常有见地的研究，第三章Note-Taking as Information Management可作为理解魏希德对唐宋笔记和类书相关论断的参考文章～