The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing Clayton EwanPaperback
The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing Clayton EwanPaperback From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated…
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The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing Clayton EwanPaperback
From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty-first-century users of desktop computers, the story of writing is the story of human civilization itself.Calligraphy expert Ewan Clayton traces the history of an invention which--ever since our ancestors made the transition from a nomadic to an agrarian way of life in the eighth century BC--has been the method of codification and dissemination of ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. He explores the social and cultural impact of, among other stages, the invention of the alphabet; the replacement of the papyrus scroll with the codex in the late Roman period; the perfecting of printing using moveable type in the fifteenth century and the
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