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| #421693 in Books | Lynch Jack | 2016-02-23 | 2016-02-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.34 x1.62 x6.49l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 464 pages | You Could Look It Up The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| You Should Look Up You Could Look it Up|By Karen P. Rhodes|You Could Look it Up is an engaging history of the most important and influential reference books in history, from ancient to modern times. Though importand and influential, many of the works Jack Lynch describes are quite obscure. He has a delightful style, and brings up the most fascinating facts about these books a|||"Lively and erudite . . . Lynch offers a reference book of reference books, a magical volume of infinite regress . . . You Could Look It Up can serve as a reminder of our enduring and impudent desire to keep the chaotic universe in some kind of neat an
"Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." 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.
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