Natale Battezzati [SEP] place of death
Natale Battezzati
Natale Battezzati (1818–1882) was a printer and publishing house owner in Milan, Italy in the mid- and late 1880s. He was a founding member of the Italian book-trade society, "Associazione tipografico-libraria italiana", and developed a card catalog system for booksellers that influenced American librarianship.
Professional life.
Natale Battezzati began working in printing early in his life, and formed a printing and publishing house that produced a variety of significant works, including "Storia del Parlamento subalpino" by A.
Amherst's library and reclassify its collections. Dewey worked out a new scheme that superimposed a system of decimal numbers on a structure of knowledge first outlined by Sir Francis Bacon. For his decision to use a decimal system he may have been inspired by two library systems that he includes in the acknowledgements in the first publication of his system in 1876. In that preface, and in the following thirteen editions, Dewey cites the card system of Italian publisher Natale Battezzati as "the most fruitful source of ideas".
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