From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world.
Paper
is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology.
For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more
efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media,
religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the foundation of
civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability. One has
only to look at history’s greatest press run, which produced 6.5 billion
copies of Máo zhuxí yulu, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Zedong)―which
doesn’t include editions in 37 foreign languages and in braille―to
appreciate the range and influence of a single publication, in paper. Or
take the fact that one of history’s most revered artists, Leonardo da
Vinci, left behind only 15 paintings but 4,000 works on paper. And
though the colonies were at the time calling for a boycott of all
British goods, the one exception they made speaks to the essentiality of
the material; they penned the Declaration of Independence on British
paper.
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