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