A Revolving Bookcase by Agostino Ramelli

Hall, Bert S.; Ramelli, Agostino

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“…Med hjälp av spakar och pedaler kan den läsande enkelt manövrera hjulet, och behöver således ej ändra ställning och avbrytas i sitt arbete. (Hall 1970) Som läsinstrument var maskinen således på samma gång bekväm som tids-och utrymmessparande.…”

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Exit codex? Diskussionen om bokens framtid då och nu

Borg¹

2013

NTIK

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Uppsatsen analyserar, utifrån ett metavetenskapligt och historiserande perspektiv, hur diskussionen kring bokens framtid tett sig sedan sent artonhundratal fram till idag. Perspektivet är främst skandinaviskt, men med ett anglosaxiskt jämförelsematerial. Såväl fackmässiga, som skönlitterära bidrag granskas. Studien undersöker kritikernas bakgrund och vilka egenskaper de tillskriver boken som informationsmedium, samt vilka sidor hos bokmediet – innehåll, materialitet, kultur och användning – de utgår ifrån. På detta sätt avtäcks mentaliteter och föreställningar om människans relation till information och teknik, om hennes fritidsvanor och om bildningsideal. Genomgången visar att varje generation tycks ha ett behov av att försvara Boken, eller i varje fall diskutera den bokliga kulturens framtidsutsikter.

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Exit codex? Diskussionen om bokens framtid då och nu

Borg¹

2013

NTIK

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Reading the Book of Mozilla: Web Browsers and the Materiality of Digital Texts

Galey¹

2011

The History of Reading, Volume 3

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If dirt is simply matter in the wrong place, it may be that digital texts can bear the marks of the world around them in ways we have yet to understand. 1 In defiance of the conventional wisdom offered by hypertext theorists of the 1990s, who installed a vaguely defined immateriality into their arguments about new media, digital texts today seem to insist on being troublesome in the same ways as material documents: they may change in form and content when migrated from old formats to new ones; they manage to get themselves lost (think of White House email records); they demand embodiment and constant attention in expensive mobile devices; reading them at injudicious times even causes automobile accidents. Digital texts were supposed to be above the messiness of the world, but scholars of electronic textuality, like David Levy, have dragged them back down to earth: Digital documents are not immaterial. The marks produced on screens and on paper, the sounds generated in the airwaves, are as material as anything in our world. And the ones and zeros of our digital representations. .. are embedded in a material substrate no less than are calligraphic letterforms on a piece of vellum. It may be true that digital representations can move around extremely quickly, that they can be copied from one storage device to another, even when they are separated by thousands of miles. But at any one This research was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and was presented at the conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing in Toronto, 2009. I am grateful to Sarah Brouillette, Travis DeCook and the audience members at that event for their comments, especially Michael Winship, and to the many classes and audiences who have shared their insights on the Ramelli image with me.

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The Ramellian Bookwheel

Considine

2016

Erud Repub Lett

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Agostino Ramelli’s theatre of machines of 1588 includes a design for a bookwheel, a machine rotating on a horizontal axle which would hold a number of large books open simultaneously in such a way that a reader could bring each into view in turn. Since the 1990s, the Ramellian bookwheel has become an icon of early modern techniques of reading. This paper gives an account of Ramelli’s design and its fortuna; surveys the history of rotating reading machines before Ramelli (all of which pivoted on vertical axles); gives an account of all the known bookwheels constructed on Ramellian and similar principles from the early seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth century; and argues that these machines appear to have been used as catalogue stands or displayed as prestige objects in great libraries rather than to have aided the reading of learned individuals.

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A Revolving Bookcase by Agostino Ramelli

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Exit codex? Diskussionen om bokens framtid då och nu

Exit codex? Diskussionen om bokens framtid då och nu

Reading the Book of Mozilla: Web Browsers and the Materiality of Digital Texts

The Ramellian Bookwheel

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