Information Overload in the 17th Century - Science and Tech - The Atlantic - 12 views
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Sheri Edwards on 26 Aug 10What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast Chaos and confusion of Books, we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning. For my part I am one of the number--one of the many--I do not deny it... Robert Burton's 1621 work The Anatomy of Melancholy: