Comments on: Finding Litho in the Library https://lithoguru.com/life/?p=165 Musings of a Gentleman Scientist Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 By: Trey https://lithoguru.com/life/?p=165#comment-12247 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12247 I am reading a book on ancient Alexandria called "The Rise and Fall of Alexandria". Callimachus was the librarian for the famous Library in the 3rd century BC and produced a catalog of most of the works in the Library.

This site (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/…) says much the same as the book:

"Callimachus divided Greek writers into tables (pinakoi), arranged in several classes – rhetoric, law, epic, tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, history, medicine, mathematics, natural science and miscellanea. Authors were arranged in alphabetical order, a cataloguing device that become commonplace gradually."

Evidently, cataloging is not new. I wonder if they had a lithography section? 😉

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