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  1. Aug 2022
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    How the Humble Index Card Foresaw the Internet
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    1. chrisaldrich 07 Aug 2022

      https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a19379/a-short-history-of-the-index-card/

      Broad history essay but doesn't dig into the weeds. Feels a lot like a few other essays I've seen of this sort. Content farmish...

      Carl Linnaeus Systema Naturae read Paul Otlet Mundaneum index cards
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    Tools for Reordering: Commonplacing and the Space of Words in Linnaeus's Philosophia Botanica
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    1. chrisaldrich 06 Aug 2021
      when he laid out the early form of his classification method in a pamphletentitled Methodus(1736), he used heads to order the text.16

      Carl Linnaeus' classification method in Systema Naturae, his famous nomenclature system, was informed by the traditional topical headings of commonplace books.

      [16] The content of Methodus and the nature of the heads is addressed in S. Müller-Wille, ‘Introduction’, in C.Linnaeus, Musa Cliffortiana: Clifford’s Banana Plant, translated by S. Freer (Liechtenstein: A.R.G. Gantner VerlagK.G., 2007), 33

      Carl Linnaeus Systema Naturae taxonomies topical headings commonplace books

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