This book completes a series of three volumes cataloguing the Javanese-language manuscripts housed in four repositories in the Central Javanese city of Surakarta that were preserved in microfilm under the auspices of the Cornell University's Surakarta Manuscript Project. The present volume describes the manuscripts of the Radya Pustaka Museum and the private library of the late Panembahan Hardjonagoro, a body of materials that date from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Detail...
Classification in the Wild
by Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos, Ozgur Simsek, Marcus Buckmann, and Gerd Gigerenzer
Rules for building formal models that use fast-and-frugal heuristics, extending the psychological study of classification to the real world of uncertainty. This book focuses on classification--allocating objects into categories--"in the wild," in real-world situations and far from the certainty of the lab. In the wild, unlike in typical psychological experiments, the future is not knowable and uncertainty cannot be meaningfully reduced to probability. Connecting the science of heuristics with m...
Paper Machines (History and Foundations of Information Science)
by Markus Krajewski
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars. The story begins with Konrad Gessner, a sixteenth-...
Turner's Liber studiorum a description and a catalogue
by William George Rawlinson
That Woman
Dr Mary 'Paul' Pollard is the most distinguished historian of the book in Ireland. Her two volumes, Dublin's Trade in Books 1550-1800 (Oxford, 1989) and Dictionary of members of the Dublin booktrade 1550-1800 (London, 2000) received international acclaim and are regarded as the standard works in the field. She has also published numerous articles on a wide range of subjects and has been to the fore in the protection and conservation of historic Irish libraries and their contents. The festschrift...
Catalogue of the Science Collections for Teaching and Research in the Victoria and Albert Museum
by Victoria and Albert Museum
Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge (Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science)
by Henry Woods
The collections of fossils housed in this museum, now known as the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, are of international importance. The original collection was begun in 1728, and grew rapidly. This catalogue by Henry Woods (1868–1952), a graduate of the University of Cambridge who undertook curatorial work in the museum between his graduation in 1890 and his appointment as a Demonstrator in Paleobotany in 1892, was first published in 1891. It contains the specific names, classes and orders of...
Catalogue of Curiosities for Sale by F. M. Gilham (1895)
by F M Gilham
A Descriptive Catalogue of Catlin's Indian Collection
by George Catlin
A Catalogue of Plants, Native or Naturalized, in the Vicinity of New Bern, North Carolina
by H B Groom
Catalogue Of The Specimens Of Meteoric Stones And Meteoric Irons
by T Oldham
Catalogue Of Zodiacs And Planispheres Originals And Copies
by A B Grimaldi
Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods - The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894
by John Willis Clark