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Chargement... You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipediapar Jack Lynch
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Pleasantly surprised, not at all dry. Nice overview of the making of some of the seminal reference works with a bit of philosophy on the nature of gathered knowledge. Fun ( ) A history of reference books and other materials from ancient Sumerian vocabulary lists down to Wikipedia highlighting some outstanding examples of different types in rough chronological order. Lots of interesting information here, but, perhaps, like its subject matter best dipped into rather than read through. A splendid and informative roster of 50 of the most important reference books of Western Civilization (the stupendous accomplishments of Chinese and Japanese encyclopedists are mentioned in passing). I don't hold it against the author that Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique is consigned to a few paragraphs in the chapter on Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie as it pleases me to find it mentioned at all. In short, a pleasant read that sent me scrambling on more than one occasion to archive.org to download pdf's of eccentric titles for my burgeoning library of ebooks. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge--reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries. You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient Babylon almost two millennia before Christ to Pliny's Natural History; from the 11th-century Domesday Book recording land holdings in England to Abraham Ortelius's first atlas of the world; from Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language to The Whole Earth Catalog to Google, Jack Lynch illuminates the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring impact on civilization. In the process, he offers new insight into the value of knowledge." -- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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