HIDDEN INFINITIES
Sep 01, 2021
3 minutes
BY EMILY CAMBIAS text © 2021 by Emil Cambias
Sometime around 1200 CE, a monk in Constantinople busily worked at copying books. He’d been writing all day, and now he needed some more paper—but he couldn’t just go to the store and buy more. Instead of the paper we use today, medieval writers used parchment. Parchment is made of animal skin, stretched and scraped smooth in a process that takes days. Making it was very expensive. The scribe decided to save some time and money:
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