Uma das grandes citações:
“As a librarian, Leibniz was much concerned with organising, simplifying, and codifying existing knowledge as represented in books. He was disturbed by the confusion and difficulties presented by “that horrible mass of books that keeps on growing…” (Leibniz, 1680)(…) However, he saw no end “to books continuing to increase in number.” He concluded that a pricely patron should step in to underwrite the developement of a system in which “the quintessence of the best books be extracted and joined to the best observations not yet written of the most expert in each profession, in order to build systems of solid knowledge for promoting man’s happiness” (…)
“The problem of how the contents of books were to be made to flow into and be processed by this great intellectual engine, this new kind of encyclopedia, considerably exercised his imagination. His first scheme dates from 1668. It involved the creation of a journal that would review the most important works appearing at the half-yearly book fairs in Frankfurt and Leipzing. The Nucleus Librarius Semestralis, as the journal was to be called, would comprise an inventory of notable books selected for their importance. They would be reviewed briefly and objectively in not more than a page, which would present each book’s “nucleus”, its various divisions, and any noteworthy features.”
(Rayward, W. Boyd (1994). “Some schemes for restructuring and mobilising information in documents: a historical perspective.” Information processing and management. Vol. 30, no. 2, p. 163-175.)
