The Origin of Information Science

Truth in an ancient predecessor vs truth ‘out there’: the movement towards information in separating authors from the truth in messages.

‘It is also worth considering that different meaning may have been assigned terms such as ‘ancient’ and ‘modern’, ‘discovery’ and ‘recovery’, ‘invention’ and ‘imitation’ before important departures from precedent could be permanently recorded. ‘Throughout the patristic and medieval periods, the quest for truth is thought of as the recovery of what is embedded in tradition… rather than the discovery of what is new.’ (Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, 85-86)