Re: texhax Digest, Vol 2026, Issue 64

Thanks, Jonathan, for the great quote from Tom Jefferson about
document preservation by multiple copies, rather than lock and key.
Librarians have a great acronym:

	LOCKSS: Lot Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe

Too bad that in Ancient Greece and Egypt, that the great library
in Alexandria was not replicated.  Their issue, of course, was
the great cost of manually copying written texts, a problem that
was not solved until the invention of printing presses in China
and Europe.

One of the books on my shelf is this one:

@String{pub-PENGUIN             = "Penguin"}
@String{pub-PENGUIN:adr         = "London, UK and New York, NY, USA"}


@Book{Al-Khalili:2011:HWH,
  author =       "Jim Al-Khalili",
  title =        "The house of wisdom: how {Arabic} science saved
                 ancient knowledge and gave us the {Renaissance}",
  publisher =    pub-PENGUIN,
  address =      pub-PENGUIN:adr,
  pages =        "xxix + 302 + 8",
  year =         "2011",
  ISBN =         "1-59420-279-6 (hardcover)",
  ISBN-13 =      "978-1-59420-279-7 (hardcover)",
  LCCN =         "Q127.A5 A4 2011",
  bibdate =      "Fri Jul 22 15:57:04 MDT 2011",
  bibsource =    "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/master.bib;
                 z3950.loc.gov:7090/Voyager",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  subject =      "science; Arab countries; history; philosophy; science,
                 medieval; methodology; intellectual life; science,
                 Renaissance",
  tableofcontents = "A dream of Aristotle \\
                 The rise of Islam \\
                 Translation \\
                 The lonely alchemist \\
                 The house of wisdom \\
                 Big science \\
                 Numbers \\
                 Algebra \\
                 The philosopher \\
                 The medic \\
                 The physicist \\
                 The prince and the pauper \\
                 Andalusia \\
                 The Mar{\aa}agha Revolution \\
                 Decline and Renaissance \\
                 Science and Islam today \\
                 Timeline: then Islamic world from antiquity to the
                 beginning of the modern period",
}

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