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Historical Nodes of Inquiry University Education and Technological Tectonic Shifts

Historical Nodes of Inquiry University Education and Technological Tectonic Shifts. Ned Fielden Librarian San Francisco State University San Francisco, California, USA fielden@sfsu.edu http://online.sfsu.edu/~fielden/cam. Nodes of Inquiry. Shortage of Texts Pecia System Printing Press

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Historical Nodes of Inquiry University Education and Technological Tectonic Shifts

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  1. Historical Nodes of Inquiry University Education and Technological Tectonic Shifts Ned Fielden Librarian San Francisco State University San Francisco, California, USA fielden@sfsu.edu http://online.sfsu.edu/~fielden/cam

  2. Nodes of Inquiry • Shortage of Texts • Pecia System • Printing Press • Need to Share Ideas • The Languages of Learned Discourse in the 17th & 18th Centuries: • Journals, Letters, Academic Societies

  3. Pecia System • Text Copying System • Xerox of the 13th Century • Authoritative Text (Pecia) • Distributed to Scribes • Bought or Rented at Stationers • Regulated by University

  4. Bologna Padua Verceli Perugia Terviso Florence Naples Paris Toulouse Oxford Salamanca Pollard, G. 1978 Pecia Universities

  5. 17th & 18th CenturyScholarly Communication Leibniz & Newton Learned Societies more important than Universities Letters Publications

  6. Moral of Technological Change • Does not need to be Earth-shaking • Human Centered • Anything that brings Minds & Ideas Together is a Good Thing

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