"in the year 1250, richard de fournival...imagined a cataloguing system based on a horticultural model. comparing his library to a garden wherein his fellow-citizens might gather the fruits of knowledge, he divided this garden into three flower beds." (from alberto manguel, a history of reading)


these were the beds: philosophy (which contained ten sub-categories: grammar, logic, rhetoric, etc), theology, and the "lucrative sciences." there are only two sub-categories within "the lucrative sciences": one was medicine and the other was law.

i needn't say what's on my mind. poor julian and me!