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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Importance of Technology in the History of the World
The arrival of paper technology in Europe was a crucial thing. Before that, they had to use parchment made from calf skin and the skin of other animals. The material was so valuable that quite often people would scrub off an old piece of writing or copying some new text for reuse. That process certainly contributed to our loss of quite a few texts.
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