Reading this week...
Library book about the history of paper - from China to Korea to Vietnam, from Asia to the Middle East to Spain to Italy. The new technology only gets spread when the need is already there. You need readers and writers first, before you need books made from paper. You need lawyers and laws before you need to write the laws on paper. And you need cheap paper before sketching,drawings, woodblock prints, printing presses, books and move-able type,
ISBN: 978-0-393-23961-4
This one is more of interest to me than his other books on Salt or Cod ( or salt cod? )
Reading this week...
Library book about the history of paper - from China to Korea to Vietnam, from Asia to the Middle East to Spain to Italy. The new technology only gets spread when the need is already there. You need readers and writers first, before you need books made from paper. You need lawyers and laws before you need to write the laws on paper. And you need cheap paper before sketching,drawings, woodblock prints, printing presses, books and move-able type,
ISBN: 978-0-393-23961-4
This one is more of interest to me than his other books on Salt or Cod ( or salt cod? )