The Many Books of Nature
Renaissance Naturalists and Information Overload
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4455534 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian W Ogilvie (0000-0002-4548-2950, University of Massachusetts Amherst, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-40 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jhi.2003.0015 |
| PMID | 12841171 |
| OpenAlex | W1985835898 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 6 |
Early Renaissance naturalists worked to identify the plans described in ancient sources. But during the middle decades of the sixteenth century, naturalists instead began to describe and name plans unknown to the ancients. They also divided nature much more finely, distinguishing species that their predecessors had lumped together. As a result, they created an information overload. Dictionaries of synonyms and local flora were invented in the early seventeenth century as partial solutions to this problem of information overload
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| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,09 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |