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You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

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by Jack Lynch


  writers’ love of, here

  religious reference books, here, here

  Reynaud, Jean, here

  Richardson, Charles, here, here

  Robinson, Jancis, here

  Rodrigues, João, here

  Roget, Peter Mark, here, here

  Roman Empire

  and book, history of, here

  celestial maps in, here

  encyclopedias in, here

  legal code of, here

  natural history works in, here

  religious reference books in, here

  The Rubber Handbook, here

  Rudolphine Tables (Kepler), here

  Ruiju myogisho, here

  Russia, reference works in, here, here

  Russian Revolution, here

  Sakoku Edict (1639), here

  Sanger, Larry, here

  Sanskrit, early dictionaries of, here

  Sargon (Šarru-kinu), here

  Satrapies, here

  Sauvages de Lacroix, François B. de, here

  Scheil, Jean Vincent, here

  Schneider, Johann G. T., here

  Schott, Ben, here

  Schott’s Food & Drink Miscellany, here

  Schott’s Original Miscellany, here

  science. See also medicine

  early natural history works, here

  indexes and handbooks, here

  Scott, Robert, here

  scrolls, here

  Sears, M. U., here

  Secundus, Gaius P. See Pliny the Elder

  sex manuals, here

  Shea, Ammon, here, here

  Shimabara Rebellion, here

  Shiming (Liu Xi), here

  Shinsen Jikyo (Shoju), here

  Shizhou, here

  Shoju, here

  Short Treatise on the Game of Whist (Hoyle), here

  Shuowen jiezi (Xu Shen), here

  Skeat, W. W., here

  slide rule, here

  Slonimsky, Nicolas, here

  Smellie, William, here, here, here

  Smith, William, here

  Socius Mercatoris (Mayne), here

  Soviet encyclopedia, here, here

  Speusippus, here

  sports, reference works on, here, here

  Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane, here

  Stephanus, H. (H. Estienne), here, here

  Suidas, here

  Sumerian language dictionary, here

  Sushruta Samhita, here

  Synonymia geographica (Ortelius), here

  Table Alphabeticall (Cawdrey), here, here

  Tabula Rudolphina (Kepler), here

  Teuffel, Wilhelm Siegmund, here

  Te Winkel, Lamert Allard, here

  Text to Dispel Ignorance About Everything (Amenemope), here

  Thackeray, William M., here

  Theatrum orbis terrarum (Theatre of the World; Ortelius), here, here, here

  Theophrastus, here, here

  Thesaurus (Roget), here, here

  Thesaurus geographicus (Ortelius), here

  Thesaurus linguae graecae (Estienne), here

  Thompson, Alexander John, here

  Treasure-House of the Greek Language (Estienne), here

  Trench, Richard Chenevix, here, here, here

  Tribonian, here, here

  Tridentine Index, here

  trivia reference books, here

  TV Guide, here

  Uranometria (Bayer), here, here

  Urra=hubullu, here, here

  USNO-BI.0, here

  van Lessing, Jacoba, here

  van Wijk, Gerth, here

  Varro, Marcus Terentius, here, here, here

  Vaugelas, Claude F. de, here, here

  Veazey, William Reed, here, here, here

  Victor, Hierosme, here

  Videnskabernes Selskabs Ordbog, here

  Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca, here, here, here, here

  Vocabulario da lingoa de Iapam, here

  von Köchel, Ludwig, here

  Wales, Jimmy, here, here, here, here

  Wamyo ruijusho (Minamoto), here

  Warburton, William, here

  Watson, Thomas J., here

  Webster, Noah, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Webster’s dictionaries, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Wikipedia, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  William the Conqueror, here, here, here, here

  Wilson, Halsey William, here

  Winder, Robert, here

  Wisden, John, here

  Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, here, here, here

  Wissowa, Georg O. A., here

  women, and reference books, here, here, here, here

  Worcester, Joseph Emerson, here, here

  Works Progress Admin., here, here

  World Book Encyclopedia, here, here, here

  WorldCat, here

  World Wide Web, databases on

  access to as issue, here

  and alphabetization, here

  edition concept and, here

  impact on books, here, here, here

  issues and dangers of, here, here

  library catalogs, here

  Xu Shen, here

  Yonglè dàdian, here, here

  Yule, Henry, here

  Zedler, Johann H., here, here

  Zheng Qiao, here

  Zweck, Anlage, und Ergänzung griechischer Wörterbücher (Passow), here

  BY THE SAME AUTHOR

  The Lexicographer’s Dilemma: The Evolution of

  “Proper” English from Shakespeare to South Park

  The English Language: A User’s Guide

  Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary

  Samuel Johnson’s Insults

  Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife

  That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard

  A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

  JACK LYNCH is a professor of English at Rutgers University. He specializes in English literature of the eighteenth century and the history of the English language. He is the author of several books, including The Lexicographer’s Dilemma: The Evolution of “Proper” English, from Shakespeare to South Park and Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master. He lives in New Jersey.

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  First published 2016

  © Jack Lynch 2016

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