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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: Index
Description: In this episode of High Theory, Dennis Duncan tells us about the history of the index. At it’s simplest, an index is a table with columns that allow you to match sets of terms, most often topics and page numbers. Google is an index, as was the first bible concordance, completed in 1230 under the direction of a French Dominican scholar named Hugo de Saint-Cher.In the episode, Dennis quotes a line from Alexander Pope’s Dunciad:How index-learning turns no student pale. Yet holds the eel of science by the tail(boo...