Draw bottom left: ‘1-25’. Index of Ross Ashby’s journals arranged according to subject: 1. Natural selection 2. Society 3. The Multistable System 4. DAMS and DAMS (Mark II) 5. Epistemology 6. Higher geometry of fields and matrix theory 7. Psychiatric applications 8. The Conditioned Refle...
Draw bottom right: ‘Alphabetical’. Index of Ross Ashby’s journals arranged alphabetically according to keywords. Also includes a small section of bibliographic references numbered between 4 and 156 with some cards in the sequence either missing or blank.
W. Ross Ashby: book ('Introduction to Cybernetics')
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Introduction to Cybernetics (London, 1956). W. Ross Ashby’s copy (11 September, 1956). Hardback with handwritten title on the spine. Handwritten notes recording ‘Serious misprints and mistakes’. List of languages the book has been translated into on the first page along with a list of people the ...
Design for a Brain, 2nd Edition (London, 1960). Paperback proof copy with handwritten title on the front and spine. First page has a handwritten list of people copies of the book have been presented to and a short list of pages with typesetting errors on the following page.
Collected notes and offprints with subject dividers originally bound in a ring binder. 1. Elementary examples in Information Analysis 2. Bounds for H, T, Q. 3. Coordination (including) Examples of information flow in systems showing coordination Example of information flow in coordination wit...
Collection of offprints, articles and papers authored by W. Ross Ashby including both typescript and published material. (1966 - 1969). Some material includes minor corrections and annotations. Numbered 101-131. (102-105, 107-108 are missing).