On December 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey, librarian and inventor of the Dewey Decimal classification system for libraries, the DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification), was born.
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Consequences of Pragmatism (1982), Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989), Achieving our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (1998), Philosophy and Social Hope (1999), and (with Gianni Vatti
...in 1873, Amherst College junior Melvil Dewey made a proposal to the faculty. He had been working in the college library and was frustrated by the lack of logic in the way the books were shelved.
F. Subtil, и J. Garcia. Legacy of the Chicago School: A Collection of Essays in Honour of the Chicago School of Sociology During the First Half of the 20th Century., Midrash, England, (2010)