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By : Andrew Riggsby
Book Synopsis :
Today's information technology often seems to take on a life of its own, spreading into every part of our lives. In the Roman world things were different. Technologies were limited to small, scattered social groups.By examining five technologies-lists, tables, weights and measures, artistic perspective, and mapping-Mosaics of Knowledge demonstrates how the Romans broke up a world we might have imagined them to unite. That is, the recording, storage, and recall of information in physical media might be expectedto bind together persons distant in time and space. More often than not, however, Roman instances serve to create or reinforce the isolation of particular groups. Persons in different locations- whether those are geographical, social, or occupational-had access to quite different informationalresources, and the overall situation is thus not controlled by the needs of any particular class or group. On the one hand, these constraints on use in turn constrain the development and .
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Tittle : Mosaics of Knowledge: Representing Information in the Roman World
Author : Andrew Riggsby
Pages : 264 pages
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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ISBN-10 : 019063250X
ISBN-13 : 9780190632502
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