Introduction (Chris Meyns);
Part1: Information before 500 CE: Natures;
1. Yinyang information: Order, know-how and a relation based paradigm (Robin R. Wang); 2. Plato on the act of informing: Speaking meaningfully and education (Tamsin de Waal); 3. On information in Aristotle: Nature, perception, knowledge (Miira Tuominen); 4. Information and history of psychiatry: The case of the disease phrenitis (Chiara Thumiger);
Part2: Information 500?1500: Access;
5. V?caspati on aboutness and decomposition (Nilanjan Das); 6. Seeing and recognition in the Arabian Nights and Islamic Alexander legends (Anna Ayse Akasoy); 7. Avicenna on information processing and abstraction (Luis Xavier Lopez-Farjeat); 8. Thomas Aquinas on cognition as information Cecilia Trifogli);
Part3: Information 1500?1800: Control;
9. Leibniz as a precursor to Chaitin’s Algorithmic Information Theory (Richard T. W. Arthur); 10. Information visualisation in the Philosophical Transactions (Chris Meyns); 11. ‘Dwindled into Confusion and Nonsense’: Information in a copyright perspective from the Statute of Anne to Google Books (Stina Teilmann-Lock); 12. Information in the pursuit of social reform (Lynn McDonald);
Part4: Information in the nineteenth century: (Dangerous) systems;
13. The nineteenth-century information revolution and world peace (Edward Beasley) 14. Charles Babbage’s economy of knowledge Renee Prendergast); 15. Mendel on developmental information (Yafeng Shan); 16. Information and eugenics: Francis Galton (Debbie Challis and Subhadra Das);
Part5: Information after 1900: Insurgencies;
17. The racialization of information: W.E.B. Du Bois, early intersectionality, and social information (Reiland Rabaka); 18. The many faces of Shannon information (Olimpia Lombardi and Cristian Lopez); 19. Computers and system(s) science-the kingpins of modern technology: Lotfi Zadeh’s glimpses into the future of the information revolution (Rudolf Seising); Index