Editing Table of contents (section)

=== Classical Origins ===
The Roman writer '''Quintus Valerius Soranus''' (d. 82 BCE) is credited as the first to attach a list of contents to a written work, according to the Roman historian '''Pliny the Elder'''. In his ''Natural History'', Pliny writes: "Soranus was the first to include a list of his book’s chapters to help the reader understand its content."<ref>[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/7*.html Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book VII]</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=[[Pliny the Elder]] |title=[[Natural History (Pliny)|Historia naturalis]] |at=Preface 33 |trans-title=Natural History}} Quoted in {{cite journal |last=Henderson |first=John |date=July 2002 |title=Knowing Someone Through Their Books: Pliny the Younger on Uncle Pliny (''Epistles'' 3.5) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1215524 |journal=Classical Philology |volume=97 |issue=3 |page=275 |doi=10.1086/449587 |jstor=1215524 |s2cid=162007417 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref group="note">Pliny's own table of contents for his encyclopedic [[Natural History (Pliny)|''Historia naturalis'']] ("Natural History") may be viewed online [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/1*.html in Latin] and [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137 in English] (following dedication).</ref>