People talk a great deal about the printing press, understandably, less about the shift from parchment to paper. The *economical* production of paper is a highly non-trivial matter that has taken a lot of innovation in its own right. Interesting that the pandemic started with a run on toilet paper (whatever the actual reason) and has moved on to a publishing crisis.
People talk a great deal about the printing press, understandably, less about the shift from parchment to paper. The *economical* production of paper is a highly non-trivial matter that has taken a lot of innovation in its own right. Interesting that the pandemic started with a run on toilet paper (whatever the actual reason) and has moved on to a publishing crisis.
People talk a great deal about the printing press, understandably, less about the shift from parchment to paper. The *economical* production of paper is a highly non-trivial matter that has taken a lot of innovation in its own right. Interesting that the pandemic started with a run on toilet paper (whatever the actual reason) and has moved on to a publishing crisis.