Thing #2: SigInt

Before Library 2.0, long before, was John Dee, who had the largest library in England by 1583: Bibliotheca Mortlacensis. He was omnivorous in his hunger for knowledge of all that was. His library collection was open to the savants of his day; navigators, cartographers, alchemists, philosophers... But it was'nt enough. Dee sought to go outside the envelope, engaging a Different Network to interact with...

"...(Deborah)Harkness addresses Dee's motivation in seeking information from angels, emphasizing the ways in which the celestial realms would have been seen by Dee as a kind of intellectual resource; she traces some of the overlapping content in the matter of the angelic discourse and the contents of Dee's library, tying these to other notions current at the time in the realms of alchemy, cabala, and the search for a universal science. http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/Reviews/harkness-review.html

re his library:
http://www.librarything.com/profile/JohnDee