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Historical Nodes of Inquiry Historical Nodes of Inquiry University Education and University Education and
Technological Tectonic ShiftsTechnological Tectonic Shifts
Ned FieldenLibrarianSan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco, California, USAfielden@sfsu.edu
http://online.sfsu.edu/~fielden/cam
Nodes of InquiryNodes of Inquiry
Shortage of TextsPecia SystemPrinting Press
Need to Share IdeasThe Languages of Learned
Discourse in the 17th & 18th Centuries:
Journals, Letters, Academic Societies
PeciaPecia System System
• Text Copying System– Xerox of the 13th Century
• Authoritative Text (Pecia)• Distributed to Scribes• Bought or Rented at Stationers• Regulated by University
Pecia UniversitiesPecia Universities
• Bologna• Padua• Verceli• Perugia• Terviso• Florence• Naples
• Paris• Toulouse• Oxford • Salamanca
Pollard, G. 1978
1717thth & 18 & 18thth Century CenturyScholarly CommunicationScholarly Communication
Leibniz & NewtonLearned Societies more important than UniversitiesLettersPublications