You Could Look It Up by Jack Lynch
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.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780802777522 |
| ISBN 10 | 080277752X |
| Title | You Could Look It Up |
| Author | Jack Lynch |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Year published | 2016-04-21 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
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