You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
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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
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Tribonian, here, here
Tridentine Index, here
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Varro, Marcus Terentius, here, here, here
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Wales, Jimmy, here, here, here, here
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Warburton, William, here
Watson, Thomas J., here
Webster, Noah, here, here, here, here, here, here
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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
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Wissowa, Georg O. A., here
women, and reference books, here, here, here, here
Worcester, Joseph Emerson, here, here
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World Book Encyclopedia, here, here, here
WorldCat, here
World Wide Web, databases on
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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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