Day: January 30, 2019

The fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD saw the decline of the culture of ancient Rome. Papyrus became difficult to obtain due to lack of contact with Egypt, and parchment, which had been used for centuries, became the main writing material. …

Introduction Aristotle’s Physics is called a book, as of course the Bible encompasses many different books. In the unrestricted sense.This sense of book has a restricted and an unrestricted sense. A book is both a usually portable physical object and the body of immaterial representations …

Introduction This sense of book has a restricted and an unrestricted sense. A book is both a usually portable physical object and the body of immaterial representations or intellectual object whose material signs—written or drawn lines or other two-dimensional media—the physical object contains or houses. …

Introduction The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex in the plural, codices. In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its immediate predecessor, the scroll. As a physical object, a book is a stack of …

Introduction A book is both a usually portable physical object and the body of immaterial representations or intellectual object whose material signs—written or drawn lines or other two-dimensional media—the physical object contains or houses. The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex in the …

Introduction The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex in the plural, codices. In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its immediate predecessor, the scroll. As a physical object, a book is a stack of …