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=== Before Standardization === | === Before Standardization === | ||
Since early books were exclusively handmade materials, page sizes varied considerably and without any stand for uniformity. During the manual paper making process, the size of the paper was governed by the size of the framed screen used to hold and mould the paper material solution. | Since early books were exclusively handmade materials, page sizes varied considerably and without any stand for uniformity. During the manual paper making process, the size of the paper was governed by the size of the framed screen used to hold and mould the paper material solution. | ||
=== Before ISO 216 Standardization === | |||
==== British Imperial Paper Sizes ==== | |||
==== Traditional French Paper Sizes ==== | |||
=== International Standardizations === | === International Standardizations === | ||
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[[https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/lichtenberg-letter.html/title]] | [[https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/lichtenberg-letter.html/title]] | ||
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Link to [[Remote Book History Resources|something else]] | Link to [[Remote Book History Resources|something else]] | ||
Revision as of 15:51, 7 December 2020
History
Before Standardization
Since early books were exclusively handmade materials, page sizes varied considerably and without any stand for uniformity. During the manual paper making process, the size of the paper was governed by the size of the framed screen used to hold and mould the paper material solution.
Before ISO 216 Standardization
British Imperial Paper Sizes
Traditional French Paper Sizes
International Standardizations
German physicist, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg appears to be have proposed the standardized paper size system [[1]]
North American Standardizations
Link to something else
References
Bloom, Jonathan. Paper Before Print: the History and Impact of Paper In the Islamic World. E-book, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, https://hdl-handle-net.proxy.library.upenn.edu/2027/heb.06496. Accessed 3 Dec 2020.