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Part I. Mind, word and world: 1. Knowing, referring and recording: storing information beyond the brain 2. Information and World 3: in the beginning was the Word Part II. The Ancient World: 3. Containers of knowledge: the first reference technologies 4. Systems for knowledge: school and letter, book and library 5. The taxonomic urge: class, classic and classification 6. Missionaries and monasteries: reference and reverence Part III. The Medieval World: 7. Faith versus reason: summations of truth 8. The elites of knowledge: universitas Part IV. The Early Modern World: 9. All knowledge for all men: the omne scibile and the printing press 10. Theme versus alphabet: the roots of lexicography 11. A blurring of languages: Latin and the vernaculars Part V. The Modern World: 12. The legislative urge: authoritative wordbooks 13. Reference and revolution: the encyclopedia proper 14. Thematic lexicography: word order and world order 15. Alphabetic lexicography: the unendable dictionary 16. Universal education: dictionaries for the people 17. Semantic fields and conceptual universes: the unshapeable lexis 18. Tensions and trends: overt alphabet, covert theme Part VI. Tomorrows World: 19. Shaping things to come: the priests of High Technology 20. Knowledge, knowledge everywhere: planetary network, global book.
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