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发表于2024-12-25
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world.
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the foundation of civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability. One has only to look at history’s greatest press run, which produced 6.5 billion copies of Máo zhǔxí yǔlù, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Zedong)—which doesn’t include editions in 37 foreign languages and in braille—to appreciate the range and influence of a single publication, in paper. Or take the fact that one of history’s most revered artists, Leonardo da Vinci, left behind only 15 paintings but 4,000 works on paper. And though the colonies were at the time calling for a boycott of all British goods, the one exception they made speaks to the essentiality of the material; they penned the Declaration of Independence on British paper.
Now, amid discussion of “going paperless”—and as speculation about the effects of a digitally dependent society grows rampant—we’ve come to a world-historic juncture. Thousands of years ago, Socrates and Plato warned that written language would be the end of “true knowledge,” replacing the need to exercise memory and think through complex questions. Similar arguments were made about the switch from handwritten to printed books, and today about the role of computer technology. By tracing paper’s evolution from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on the contributions made in Asia and the Middle East, Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology’s influence, affirming that paper is here to stay. Paper will be the commodity history that guides us forward in the twenty-first century and illuminates our times.
Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times best-selling author of twenty-eight books and a former foreign correspondent for The International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He lives in New York City.
内容丰富 有趣的小知识众多 边读边做了摘抄笔记 结合纸张的生产工艺 历史发展 社会效用 涵盖了欧亚几大文明的兴衰进程 无论文化艺术科技生活 都是极好的着眼点!
评分MK是去年开始看的怪书大叔...基本抽空都消灭了..今年退步很大..看书速度降低了..自我批评一下。需要吃核桃补脑了。
评分思维有深度,也有广度,但语言并不复杂,易懂,育人。。
评分文字还是不错的
评分思维有深度,也有广度,但语言并不复杂,易懂,育人。。
从前偶然看到几页,不可否认纸的伟大改变。不是技术催生了改革,是时代的发展催生了技术的变革。 今天在看哲学的故事,读到这段话: [哲学的故事] 廉价的纸张从埃及流入,取代了昂贵的羊皮纸,是的学习不再是由神甫们垄断的特权;印刷术早就等待便宜的媒介,此时便如炸药一般一...
评分从前偶然看到几页,不可否认纸的伟大改变。不是技术催生了改革,是时代的发展催生了技术的变革。 今天在看哲学的故事,读到这段话: [哲学的故事] 廉价的纸张从埃及流入,取代了昂贵的羊皮纸,是的学习不再是由神甫们垄断的特权;印刷术早就等待便宜的媒介,此时便如炸药一般一...
评分从前偶然看到几页,不可否认纸的伟大改变。不是技术催生了改革,是时代的发展催生了技术的变革。 今天在看哲学的故事,读到这段话: [哲学的故事] 廉价的纸张从埃及流入,取代了昂贵的羊皮纸,是的学习不再是由神甫们垄断的特权;印刷术早就等待便宜的媒介,此时便如炸药一般一...
评分文章标题起得很好,“一阅千年”也是“一页千年”,刚好能突出本书的主题是“纸的历史”,纸的历史可以分为三个层次:一是纸的发明,二是造纸术和印刷术的发明,三是书写工具和学习的发展。 1.纸的发明:纸的发明源自于人类文明发展延续的记录需要,先是石头刻字,再是黏土记录...
评分文章标题起得很好,“一阅千年”也是“一页千年”,刚好能突出本书的主题是“纸的历史”,纸的历史可以分为三个层次:一是纸的发明,二是造纸术和印刷术的发明,三是书写工具和学习的发展。 1.纸的发明:纸的发明源自于人类文明发展延续的记录需要,先是石头刻字,再是黏土记录...
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