Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind

by Ayelet Even-Ezra

We think with objects--we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions, articulate ideas, and organize the chaos that fills our heads. Medieval scholars learned to think with their pages in a peculiar way: drawing hundreds of tree diagrams. Lines of Thought is the first book to investigate this prevalent but poorly studied notational habit, analyzing the practice from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022674308X
• ISBN13: 9780226743080
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.7" x 11.1"