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The Book Before Printing : Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental by David Diringer is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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"A remarkable work. . . . For sheer weight of information there is no equal to it." — <i>The Spectator. <br></i>It is probable that the earliest "books" were written on wood or leaves as early as the fourth millennium B.C. These fragile materials, unfortunately, have not come down to us. In their absence, the earliest surviving books are the clay tablets of Mesopotamia, the oldest attributed to c. 3500 B.C. On these ancient clay shards, dense rows of cuneiform script record the seminal writings
Who reads The Book Before Printing : Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Diringer
- Publisher
- Dover Publications, Incorporated
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780486242439
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Technology, Computer Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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