Talk:Conrad Gessner

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I am editing this for a class I am taking and I know many things aren't cited yet but I will be doing that shortly. Please bare with me.Kycarp20 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:15, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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What is the authority for saying "von Gesner"? Other encyclopedisa (such as present-day EB) just say "Conrad Gesner". Stan 19:07, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure about the "von" either, afterall he is not listed himself on the plant index. I moved it back to the earlier title. "Konrad Gessner" or "Conrad Gessner" seem to be present-day spellings. -- User:Docu

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Some suggestions for improvement as the article is expanded:

Template:Infobox Scientist should be added
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Book title: Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 Markus Krajewski (Author), Peter Krapp (Translator)

from the Amazon description: "Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars. The story begins with Konrad Gessner, a sixteenth-century Swiss polymath who described a new method of processing data: to cut up a sheet of handwritten notes into slips of paper, with one fact or topic per slip, and arrange as desired. In the late eighteenth century, the card catalog became the librarian's answer to the threat of information overload. ..."

That Amazon description, probably from the book's jacket, reads as crediting Gessner with the invention of what came to be know as the "unit record" (I've not looked at the book). 69.106.232.158 (talk) 08:23, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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