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Epistemological Excess in Early Modern Europe: Coping with Copia book cover

1st Edition

Epistemological Excess in Early Modern Europe Coping with Copia

Edited By Fabian Krämer, Itay Sapir Copyright 2027
224 Pages 60 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

We are living in an era of unprecedented “information overload”. This is one of the most common clichés defining the early 21st century, both in academic circles and in general public imagery. And, as clichés often do, this one encapsulates some elements of truth. The "unprecedented" nature of our contemporary overload may be less clear than we tend to think. Some periods in the past were... Read more

Chapter 1. Visual Strategies for Coping with Copia in Early Modern Europe

Fabian Kraemer

 

Section I: Books

 

Chapter 2. Translating Plinian Copia in Early Modern Spain

Christopher D. Johnson

 

Chapter 3. When Knowledge ‘Squared’ Was Knowledge Shared: Strategies for Coping with an Excess of Data in Early Modern Library Catalogues

Paola Molino

 

Section II: Tables

 

Chapter 4. Visualising Observation in Tables: Information Management in Astronomy before Galileo

Richard J. Oosterhoff

 

Chapter 5. The Whole World at a Glance: Managing Information Overload in a Printed Historical Table

Ashley Gonik

 

Section III: Objects and Spaces

 

Chapter 6. On Being Compendious. ‘Universal’ Instruments and the Mathematical Arts

Boris Jardine

 

Chapter 7. Epistemological Experience in the Palaces of Baroque Rome

Denis Ribouillault

 

Section V: A Copious Nature

 

Chapter 8. Early Modern Conceptions of a Copious Nature

Fabian Kraemer

 

Chapter 9. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) on Copia of Information.

Richard Yeo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Fabian Kraemer teaches early modern history and history of knowledge at Universität des Saarlandes. His first book “Ein Zentaur in London: Lektüre und Beobachtung in der frühneuzeitlichen Naturforschung” (Didymos, 2014) has been awarded several awards, including the Prize for Young Scholars of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, Division of History of Science and Technology and the Special Award of the Translation Program “Geisteswissenschaften International”. An English translation has since been published as “A Centaur in London: Reading and Observation in Early Modern Science” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023).

Itay Sapir is an Associate Professor of History of Art, Université du Québec à Montréal.

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