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NOTES

CHAPTER 0
: PROLOGUE

1.
  Ong,
Orality and Literacy
, p. 31.

2.
  Landau,
Dictionaries
, p. 4.

3.
  Ward,
Practical Use
, p. 27.

4.
  Grafton, “Jumping through the Computer Screen,” p. 95.

CHAPTER 1
: JUSTICE IN THE EARTH

1.
  Perrot,
Palace of Darius
, p. xvi.

2.
  Edwards,
Oldest Laws
, p. 6.

3.
  Delitzsch, “Zur juristischen Litteratur Babyloniens,” p. 80.

4.
  Pritchard,
Archaeology and the Old Testament
, p. 206.

5.
  Perrot,
Palace of Darius
, p. xviii.

6.
  Pritchard,
Archaeology and the Old Testament
, p. 210.

7.
  Wright,
Records of the Past
, 4:105.

8.
  Edwards,
Oldest Laws
, p. 13.

9.
  Pritchard,
Archaeology and the Old Testament
, pp. 213, 215.

10.
  Edwards,
Oldest Laws
, p. 17.

11.
  Edwards,
Oldest Laws
, p. 19.

12.
  Edwards,
Oldest Laws
, p. 26.

13.
  Edwards,
Oldest Laws
, p. 27.

14.
  See Lewis,
Early Greek Lawgivers
, p. 12.

15.
  Gagarin,
Writing Greek Law
, pp. 96–97.

16.
  Carawan,
Rhetoric and the Law of Draco
, p. 2.

17.
  Lockman,
New History
, p. 137.

18.
  Carawan,
Rhetoric and the Law of Draco
, p. 1.

19.
  Riggsby,
Roman Law
, p. 2.

20.
  Merryman,
Civil Law Tradition
, p. 7.

21.
  Watson,
Roman Law and Comparative Law
, pp. 84–85.

22.
  Riggsby,
Roman Law
, pp. 39–40.

23.
  Witty, “Reference Books of Antiquity,” pp. 114–15.

24.
  Merryman,
Civil Law Tradition
, p. 9.

CHAPTER 1
½: OF MAKING MANY BOOKS

1.
  Metz, “Bibliomania,” p. 252.

2.
  Stockwell,
History of Information Storage and Retrieval
, p. 47.

3.
  Anderson,
Imagined Communities
, pp. 33–34.

4.
  See Gleick, “Information Palace,” and Dyson, “How We Know.”

5.
  Burton,
Anatomy of Melancholy
, 1.2.3.15.

CHAPTER 2
: IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD

1.
  Black, George, and Postgate,
Concise Dictionary
.

2.
  Von Soden,
Ancient Orient
, p. 151.

3.
  Cohen and Kedar, “Teacher-Student Relationships,” p. 235.

4.
  See Bing, “Unruly Tongue”; Collison,
History
, pp. 26–27; and Stray,
Classical Dictionaries
, p. 5.

5.
  Yong and Peng,
Chinese Lexicography
, p. 59.

6.
  Xue, “Chinese Lexicography,” p. 152.

7.
  Nienhauser,
Indiana Companion
, 2:166; Xue, “Chinese Lexicography,” pp. 152–53.

8.
  Xue, “Chinese Lexicography,” p. 153.

9.
  Nienhauser,
Indiana Companion
, 2:166; Xue, “Chinese Lexicography,” pp. 153–54.

10.
  Xue, “Chinese Lexicography,” p. 154.

11.
  Wilkinson,
Chinese History
, p. 62.

12.
  Mirashi,
Literary and Historical Studies in Indology
, p. 51.

13.
  Datta,
Encyclopedia of Indian Literature
, s.v. dictionaries (Sanskrit); Mirashi, Literary and Historical Studies, p. 47.

14.
  Colebrooke, Preface to
Amarakosha
, 2:46.

15.
  Wilkinson,
Chinese History
, pp. 64–65.

16.
  See Datta,
Encyclopedia of Indian Literature
, s.v. dictionaries (Sanskrit).

CHAPTER 2
½: A FRACTION OF THE TOTAL

1.
  Furetière,
Nouveau recueil
, 1:4.

2.
  Stavans,
Dictionary Days
, p. 63.

3.
  When I first drafted this paragraph, the count stood at 35,650; it has gone up by 3,254 since I started writing the book. No doubt it is higher now.

CHAPTER 3
: THE HISTORY OF NATURE

1.
  Greene,
Landmarks of Botanical History
, p. 58.

2.
  Hornblower and Spawforth,
Oxford Classical Dictionary
, s.v. Theophrastus.

3.
  Schmitt, “Towards a Reassessment,” p. 250.

4.
  Pliny,
Natural History
, 1:x–xii.

5.
  McArthur,
Worlds of Reference
, p. 43.

6.
  Pliny,
Natural History
, 1:viii–ix.

7.
  Pliny,
Natural History
, 2.1.1–2, 4 (1:171–73).

8.
  Pliny,
Natural History
, 2.11 (1:207).

9.
  Pliny,
Natural History
, 11.16.46–47 (3:461); 14.1.1 (5:187).

10.
  Stockwell,
History of Information Storage
, p. 19.

11.
  Pliny,
Natural History
, 14.4.20–14.28.140 (5:199–279).

12.
  Pliny,
Natural History
, 14.27.132–33 (5:273).

13.
  Gibbon,
Decline and Fall
, 1:394.

14.
  Pliny,
Natural History
, 1:13;
Oxford Classical Dictionary
, s.v. Pliny the Elder.

15.
  See, for instance, Pliny,
Natural History
, 1:ix; Collison,
Encyclopaedias
, pp. 25–26; and Katz,
Cuneiform to Computer
, p. 22.

16.
  Pliny,
Natural History
, 1:15.

17.
  Pliny,
Natural History
, 2.40.149 (1:287); 1:13.

18.
  See Greene,
Landmarks of Botanical History
, p. 158.

CHAPTER 3
½: EASY AS ABC

1.
  See Von Soden,
Ancient Orient
, p. 151.

2.
  Witty, “Medieval Encyclopedias,” pp. 274–75.

3.
  Gleick,
Information
, p. 58.

4.
  Cawdrey,
Table Alphabeticall
, sig. A4
v
.