J. Andrew Mendelsohn from Queen Mary University of London and Charité Berlin delivers a talk titled “Data as a State of Mind and the Problem of How It Came to Be in Early Modern Europe.” This talk was included in the session titled “Envisioning Data from the Early Modern to the Nineteenth Century.” Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.

Histories of Data and the Database

Data as a State of Mind and the Problem of How It Came to Be in Early Modern Europe

In the age of internet searches and social media, data has become hot—and not for the first time. An international group of historians will consider the promises, fears, practices, and technologies for recording and transmitting data in the 18th century to the present, including the implications for the lives of citizens and subjects. The conference was held at The Huntington on Nov. 18–19, 2016.

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Histories of Data and the Database