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The Book
Friday 26th August
Douris Man with wax tablet, created about 500 BC by Douris Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikipedia
A modern model of a diptych, or two-fold writing tablet Credit: Peter van der Sluijs / CC-BY-SA 3.0 / Wikipedia
Cai Lun, the Chinese eunuch who is said to have invented paper
The Paris Codex is one of three surviving generally accepted pre-Columbian Maya books
St Cuthbert Gospel
The Columbian Press at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life, Lincoln, England. Credit: User Rept0n1x at Wikimedia Commons
Alois Senefelder, a Bavarian playwright who accidentally invented lithography, the technique used to print almost all modern books
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