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"The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books tells the story of the first and greatest visionary of the print age, a man who saw how the explosive expansion of knowledge and information generated by the advent of the printing press would entirely change the landscape of thought and society. He also happened to be Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, while his father sailed across the ocean to explore the boundaries of the known world, Hernando Colón sought to surpass Columbus's achievements by building a library that would encompass the world and include "all books, in all languages and on all subjects." In service of this vision, he spent his life travelling--first to the New World with his father in 1502, surviving through shipwreck and a bloody mutiny off the coast of Jamaica, and later, throughout Europe, scouring the bookstores of the day at the epicenter of printing. The very model of a Renaissance man, Hernando restlessly and obsessively bought thousands and thousands of books, amassing a collection based on the modern conviction that a truly great library should include the kind of material dismissed as ephemeral trash: ballads, pornography, newsletters, popular images, romances, fables. Using an invented system of hieroglyphs, he meticulously catalogued every item in his library, devising the first ever search engine for his rich profusion of books and images and music. A major setback in 1522 gave way to the creation of Hernando's Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books and inspired further refinements to his library, including a design for the first modern bookshelves. In this illuminating and brilliantly researched biography, Edward Wilson-Lee tells an enthralling story of the life and times of the first genius of the print age, a tale with striking lessons for our own modern experiences of information revolution and globalization."-- Amazon.com.… (meer)
Een wonderbaarlijk boek over een wonderbaarlijke (onechte) zoon van Columbus. Een man die homo universalis wilde zijn door alle informatie te verzamelen die er te verzamelen was. Daarbij het avontuur van zijn leven en het avontuur van het catalogiseren van zijn boeken en zijn "folderwerk". Hoe gezegend wij zijn met computers, Internet, databases, tags en indices, en hoe schatplichtig we zijn aan mensen zoals Ferdinand (Hernando) Columbus. ( )
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Hernando Colòn's earliest recorded memory is characteristically precise.
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“Clenardus remarked that, in drawing from the most distant corners everything that authors had to the present produced, Hernando had, like his father, reached beyond the limits of our world to make another: ‘just as Columbus, had, by a prodigious act, planted Spanish power and civilization in another world, so he Hernando had gathered the wisdom of the universe to Spain. Sons often resemble their fathers in appearance’, his new Dutch friend remarked, ‘but some also bear a resemblance in spirit and moral qualities.’” P 293
“If Spain was to be a universal empire, it would need at its core universal library, a memory bank in which the thought of the world was stored, and one moreover that was not a lifeless repository, but a working organ, capable of making connections …. Hernando’s library would cover all of the possible fields of knowledge, making all terrains one. His book and picture registers had ensured the library was not full of duplicates, his alphabetical lists had allowed particular book and authors to be found, the epitomes would help the reader to move through the shelves at greater speed, and the Book of Materials could guide researchers to the right place once they had a particular topic in mind.” P 276
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At eight o'clock in the morning, on 12 July 1539, Hernando called for a bowl of soil to be brought to his bedside and painted his face with the mud of the Guadalquivir, from which his father was being removed on the other bank.
"The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books tells the story of the first and greatest visionary of the print age, a man who saw how the explosive expansion of knowledge and information generated by the advent of the printing press would entirely change the landscape of thought and society. He also happened to be Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, while his father sailed across the ocean to explore the boundaries of the known world, Hernando Colón sought to surpass Columbus's achievements by building a library that would encompass the world and include "all books, in all languages and on all subjects." In service of this vision, he spent his life travelling--first to the New World with his father in 1502, surviving through shipwreck and a bloody mutiny off the coast of Jamaica, and later, throughout Europe, scouring the bookstores of the day at the epicenter of printing. The very model of a Renaissance man, Hernando restlessly and obsessively bought thousands and thousands of books, amassing a collection based on the modern conviction that a truly great library should include the kind of material dismissed as ephemeral trash: ballads, pornography, newsletters, popular images, romances, fables. Using an invented system of hieroglyphs, he meticulously catalogued every item in his library, devising the first ever search engine for his rich profusion of books and images and music. A major setback in 1522 gave way to the creation of Hernando's Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books and inspired further refinements to his library, including a design for the first modern bookshelves. In this illuminating and brilliantly researched biography, Edward Wilson-Lee tells an enthralling story of the life and times of the first genius of the print age, a tale with striking lessons for our own modern experiences of information revolution and globalization."-- Amazon.com.
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