Hyperlink aggregation circa 1689
April 18th, 2009 by davidw
Ann Blair sent me an illustration she showed during her fascinating talk on the history of the book:
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The cabinet was designed by Vincentius Placcius. It had 3,000 hooks for topics, each with places where you could hang scraps of paper with notes pertaining to those topics.
BTW, I came across a fascinating but intermittent and perhaps moribund blog on note taking that says that Leibniz had perhaps a million notes on scraps of paper, and owned a Placcius cabinet. Leibniz certainly corresponded with Placcius.
