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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Leibniz bemoaning excess of knowledge in books

Heard in interview with James Gleik on Science Friday

http://www.casualoptimist.com/2011/03/11/something-for-the-weekend-52/

In the 17th century Leibniz bemoaned the “horrible mass of books which keeps on growing,” and in 1729 Alexander Pope warned of “a deluge of authors cover[ing] the land,” as James Gleick describes in his new book, The Information.