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The paper trail : an unexpected history of the world's greatest invention
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ISBN: 9781846141898 1846141893 9780141039428 0141039426 Year: 2014 Publisher: London Lane

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"This is the story of how you came to be holding this book, how you came to be following its printed words across dozens of pages, pages made not from bamboo, silk, parchment or papyrus, but from paper. The emergence of paper in the imperial court of Han China brought about a revolution in the transmission of knowledge and of ideas. For over two millennia, it has allowed ideas, religions, philosophies and propaganda to spread around the world with ever greater ease. Paper was the first writing surface sufficiently cheap, portable and printable for books, pamphlets, prints and journals to be mass-produced and to travel widely. It enabled an ongoing dialogue between communities of scholars who could now engage with each others ideas across continents and years. The Paper Trail traces the westward voyage of this ground-breaking invention; beginning with the Buddhist translators responsible for the spread of paper across China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. It describes the theologians, scientists and artists who used paper to create the intellectual world of the Abbasid Caliphate, and journeys with the missionaries and merchants who carried it along the Silk Road. Paper finally reached Europe in 1276 and was indispensable to the scholars and translators who manufactured the Renaissance and Reformation from their desks. Paper created a world in which free thinking could flourish, and brought disciplines from science to music into a new age: the paper age. Paper still surrounds us in our everyday lives - on our desks, wrapping our food, in our wallets. It has become universal, and also supremely disposable. But is the age of paper coming to an end? This is the story of how a simple Chinese invention has wrapped itself around our world, with history's most momentous ideas etched upon its surface." --Publisher.


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Alexander Monro des Aeltern Mitglieds der Königl. Engl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu London und des Königl. Collegiums der Aerzte zu Edinburg, ingleichen öffentlichen Lehrers der Arzneykunst und Zergliederungskunst auf letzterer Universität Sä
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Year: 1782 Publisher: Weidmann

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Versuch einer Abhandlung über vergleichende Anatomie
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Year: 1790 Publisher: Dieterich

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The paper trail : an unexpected history of a revolutionary invention
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ISBN: 9780307271662 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Knopf,

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"Comprehensively researched, vividly written, The Paper Trail traces the cultural, political, and religious revolutions that this now globally ubiquitous material set in motion when it was new to the world. Alexander Monro--who has lived in, traveled through, studied, and written about China for many years--takes us from paper's refinement in 2nd century A.D. China, where it was used to solidify social and political systems that continue to influence the country today . . . to its use in the dissemination of the religions of Buddhism and Manichaeism . . . to its adoption in the Islamic world where it embedded the Koran in popular culture . . . to its role (together with printing) in the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution. It is a dramatic, surprising story populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, war-makers and peacekeepers--a story we have never heard in its entirety before, brilliantly told in this luminous work of history"--

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Papermaking --- Paper --- Papeterie --- Papier --- History. --- Histoire


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Experiments on the Nervous System with Opium and Metalline Substances Made Chiefly with the View of Determining the Nature and Effects of Animal Electricity
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Year: 1793 Publisher: Project Gutenberg

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An enquiry into the new opinions, chiefly propagated by the Presbyterians of Scotland : together with some animadversions on a late book, entitled, A defence of The vindication of the kirk : in a letter to a friend at Edinburgh
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Year: 1696 Publisher: London : Printed for Walter Kettilby,

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An advertisement by A.M. D.D.
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Year: 1695 Publisher: [Edinburgh : s.n.,

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A letter to the Honourable Sir Robert Howard, occasioned by a late book entituled, A two-fold vindication of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, and of the author of The history of religion
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Year: 1696 Publisher: London : Printed for E. Whitlock ...,

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An apology for the clergy of Scotland : chiefly oppos'd to the censures, calumnies, and accusations of a late Presbyterian vindicator, in a letter to a friend : wherein his vanity, partiality and sophistry are modestly reproved, and the legal establishment of episcopacy in that kingdom, from the beginning of the Reformation, is made evident from history and the records of Parliament : together with a postscript, relating to a scandalous pamphlet intituled, An answer to The Scotch Presbyterian eloquence.
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Year: 1693 Publisher: London : Printed for Jos. Hindmarsh ...,

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Presbyterian inquisition as it was lately practised against the professors of the Colledge of Edinburgh, August and September, 1690 : in which the spirit of Presbytery and their present method of procedure is plainly discovered, matter of fact by undeniable instances cleared, and libels against particular persons discussed.
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Year: 1691 Publisher: London : Printed for J. Hindmarsh ...,

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