Table of Contents

  1. Series page
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Prologue: “The Most Primitive Question”
  7. Part I Past and PresentFrom the “System of the World” to a World Full of Systems
    1. 1 Engaging System
    2. 2 Histories for Systems
  8. Part II Mediating KnowledgeSystem and the Fate of Enlightenment
    1. 3 The Project of Enlightenment (Master Systems)
    2. 4 Disciplinarity (Embedded and Specialized Systems)
  9. Part III ConnectivitiesSystem and the Instituting of Modernity
    1. 5 Blaming the System—Instituting the Political
    2. 6 Writing upon System—Instituting Culture
    3. 7 Secretly Seeking System—Instituting the Social
  10. Coda
    1. Re:Enlightenment (Algorithmically Enhanced Systems)
  11. Appendix A: Notes on Visualization
  12. Appendix B: Titles Containing Essay(s) in the Plural versus the Singular
  13. References
  14. Index

List of Illustrations

  1. Figure 1.1 Using Eighteenth Century Collections Online (see appendix A).
  2. Figure 1.2 Sidereus Nuncius.
  3. Figure 1.3 1640 frontispiece to Bacon’s Advancement of Learning.
  4. Figure 1.4 Using Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
  5. Figure 1.5 Using Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
  6. Figure 2.1 Title pages from 1714 and 1794.
  7. Figure 2.2 System in relationship to other terms with which it shares title pages, 1700–1739.
  8. Figure 2.3 System in relationship to other terms with which it shares title pages, 1740–1779.
  9. Figure 2.4 System in relationship to other terms with which it shares title pages, 1779–1800.
  10. Figure 2.5 Title pages containing system and history.
  11. Figure 3.1 Image from A Treatise of the System of the World onboard Voyager 1.
  12. Figure 3.2 Jupiter with four of its moons.
  13. Figure 3.3 “An earth’s-eye view straight through the disk of the Milky Way” from the Calvin Observatory. Courtesy Brad DeFrain, Calvin Observatory.
  14. Figure 3.4 Title pages from 1747 and 1769.
  15. Figure 7.1
  16. Figure 7.2 The rules and constitution of the Fair Intellectual-Club.
  17. Figure 7.3 Original announcement of the public debut of the computer mouse, 1968.
  18. Figure B.1 Using Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

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