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Structuring Information: Printed Tables as Organizing Tools in Early Modern Europe
Structuring Information: Printed Tables as Organizing Tools in Early Modern Europe
Structuring Information: Printed Tables as Organizing Tools in Early Modern Europe

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20250211151421
ISBN  
9798382777689
DDC  
900
저자명  
Gonik, Ashley.
서명/저자  
Structuring Information: Printed Tables as Organizing Tools in Early Modern Europe
발행사항  
[Sl] : Harvard University, 2024
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
형태사항  
365 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Blair, Ann.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2024.
초록/해제  
요약In this dissertation, I study the organization of information in an era long before Wikipedia and digital spreadsheets. More specifically, I investigate the methods by which qualitative and quantitative tables were printed and used in Europe between 1450 and 1700. I use editions produced across the European continent during this period, although the bulk of my sources come from Germany, the Low Countries, and Italy. My detailed analysis of visual forms and technical processes related to printed tables provides a new perspective on the intellectual and cultural priorities of the early modern period. Printed tables will not explain the Protestant Reformation or the rise of absolutism, but they do stand witness to the creativity of authors and printers seeking to effectively communicate information as simple as basic multiplication and as complicated as world history.My research grows from a burgeoning discourse on diagrams at the intersection of book history, art history, and history of science. Accordingly, by comparing editions in astronomy and finance as well as linguistics and surveying (to name a few), my project builds on scholarship that has typically distinguished between, rather than synthesized, various genres. The introduction establishes the place occupied by tables within the rich diagrammatic landscape of early modern printing. In the first chapter, I use the calendar as a highly recognizable form of table to see how we can make sense of ubiquity and continuity when it is usually easier for the historian to find unique examples of change over time. The second chapter, on historical tables, demonstrates how and why this diagrammatic tradition survived when a parallel prose tradition of history writing was available and popular during the same period. The third chapter is about long series of quantitative tables, and in it, I investigate how these large collections of information were usable at all by printers and readers alike. The fourth chapter focuses on "unstable tabular forms," including errors and upside-down presentation, to test the physical and conceptual limits of the table. Finally, the epilogue considers how tabular-adjacent printing, especially accounting ledgers, can inform our understanding of the construction and use of tables proper.
일반주제명  
History
일반주제명  
Journalism
일반주제명  
Web studies
일반주제명  
European history
일반주제명  
European studies
키워드  
Book history
키워드  
Digital spreadsheets
키워드  
Early modern Europe
키워드  
Printing
키워드  
Reading
키워드  
Wikipedia
기타저자  
Harvard University History
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-12A.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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