**Links to**: [[Table]], [[10 Bias, or Falling into Place]], [[Gravity]], [[Matrix]], [[Grid]], [[Array]], [[Schema]], [[Schematism]], [[Abstraction]], [[Linearity]]. _Tabular_ rasa: abstraction = pattern-invention. [[Schema]]: the crossing/connecting of two arbitrary things: [[Reason]]. Or [[Poetry]]. _Le chat est sur la table_. [[Shepard]] tables: ![[Table_shepard.preview.jpg|200]] [[Truth]] tables. [[Hash tables]]. [[Leibniz]]’s weaving, “lebendige Rechenbank”. Excel sheets. %% Wiki: "Because the mathematical concept of a matrix can be represented as a two-dimensional grid, two-dimensional arrays are also sometimes called matrices. In some cases the term "vector" is used in computing to refer to an array, although tuples rather than vectors are the more mathematically correct equivalent. Tables are often implemented in the form of arrays, especially lookup tables; the word table is sometimes used as a synonym of array. .... Arrays are used to implement mathematical vectors and matrices, as well as other kinds of rectangular tables. Many databases, small and large, consist of (or include) one-dimensional arrays whose elements are records. Arrays are used to implement other data structures, such as lists, heaps, hash tables, deques, queues, stacks, strings, and VLists. Array-based implementations of other data structures are frequently simple and space-efficient (implicit data structures), requiring little space overhead, but may have poor space complexity, particularly when modified, compared to tree-based data structures (compare a sorted array to a search tree). " [[Michael Friedman]] (Humboldt University) [[HaPoC 2021]], [[Extended cognition]] (bec weaving inspiring calculation) #falling [[Leibniz]] on Stocking Frame, Computing and Weaving Session 5 | Thursday, Oct 28, 9:00 – 9:30How were weaving machines and the mechanization of textile practices connected with calculating machines in the 17th century? One of the first textile-related machines to be invented in England in the early modern period is the stocking frame, which mechanized knitting in 1589. As the talk will aim to show, this invention was not only unique – indeed, it was a machine which had no predecessor – it was also one of the triggers to Leibniz’s reflections on weaving ingeneral, and especially on the stocking machine. As will be seen, Leibniz saw weaving and its mechanization as a part of (a future) geometry. Moreover, in a manuscript from 1676: Dissertatio exoterica de usu geometriae, Leibniz compared this machine to his own automatic “living” cal-culating machine: his “lebendige Rechenbank”. Taking into account other references of Leibniz to weaving and its possible mathematization, the talk aims to question not only this surprising relation between weaving and computation machines in Leibniz’ thought, but also to inquire how Leibniz’ conception of weaving machines as computational shapes the way we view the history of computation in the 17th century