I have just been reading Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles
Two quick things to mention here.
Arcimboldo’s 1566 portrait of The Librarian is new to me. What a lovely thing to be introduced to
Battles also claims that the first Europeans to adopt Arabic numerals were not, as we are usually told, the mathematicians, but book makers, scribes, those who index books – just as today the lines of a poem or text may be numbered, because nothing else available did the job so well
Now there’s a really interesting idea to play with
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