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Index
Cover
Dedication
Title
Contents
Chapter 0: Prologue: Looking It Up
Chapter 1: Justice in the Earth: Laws of the Ancient World
Chapter 1½: Of Making Many Books: Information Overload
Chapter 2: In the Beginning Was the Word: The First Dictionaries
Chapter 2½: A Fraction of the Total: Counting Reference Books
Chapter 3: The History of Nature: Science in Antiquity
Chapter 3½: Easy as ABC: The Rise (and Fall?) of Alphabetical Order
Chapter 4: Round Earth’s Imagined Corners: Mapping the World
Chapter 4½: The Invention of the Codex
Chapter 5: The Circle of the Sciences: Ancient Encyclopedias
Chapter 5½: The Dictionary Gets Its Day in Court
Chapter 6: Leechcraft: Medieval Medicine
Chapter 6½: Plagiarism: The Crime of Literary Theft
Chapter 7: New Worlds: Cartography in an Age of Discovery
Chapter 7½: Tell Me How You Organize Your Books
Chapter 8: Admirable Artifice: Computers before Computers
Chapter 8½: To Bring People Together: Societies
Chapter 9: The Infirmity of Human Nature: Guides to Error
Chapter 9½: Ignorance, Pure Ignorance: Of Omissions, Ambiguities, and Plain Old Blunders
Chapter 10: Guarding the Avenues of Language: Dictionaries in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 10½: Of Ghosts and Mountweazels
Chapter 11: The Way of Faith: Guidelines for Believers
Chapter 11½: Who’s Who and What’s What: Making the Cut
Chapter 12: Erotic Recreations: Sex Manuals
Chapter 12½: The Boys’ Club
Chapter 13: Collecting Knowledge into the Smallest Areas: The Great Encyclopedias
Chapter 13½: Dictionary or Encyclopedia?
Chapter 14: Of Redheads and Babus: Dictionaries and Empire
Chapter 14½: A Small Army: Collaborative Endeavors
Chapter 15: Killing Time: Games and Sports
Chapter 15½: Out of Print
Chapter 16: Monuments of Erudition: The Great National Dictionaries
Chapter 16½: Counting Editions
Chapter 17: Grecian Glory, Roman Grandeur: Victorian Eyes on the Ancient World
Chapter 17½: Lost Projects: What Might Have Been
Chapter 18: Words Telling Their Own Stories: The Historical Dictionaries
Chapter 18½: Overlong and Overdue
Chapter 19: An Alms-Basket of Words: The Reference Book as Salvation
Chapter 19½: Reading the Dictionary
Chapter 20: Modern Materia Medica: Staying Healthy
Chapter 20½: Incomplete and Abandoned Projects
Chapter 21: The Foundation Stone: Library Catalogs
Chapter 21½: Index Learning
Chapter 22: The Good Life: The Arts and High Society
Chapter 22½: Some Unlikely Reference Books
Chapter 23: Presumed Purity: Science in a Scientific Age
Chapter 23½: At No Extra Cost! The Business of Reference Books
Chapter 24: Full and Authoritative Information: Doctrine for the Modern World
Chapter 24½: Unpersons: Damnatio Memoriae
Chapter 25: Nothing Special: Books for Browsers
Epilogue: The World’s Information: The Encyclopedic Dream
A Brief Etymological Glossary
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes
Index
By the Same Author
A Note on the Author
Copyright
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