Printing and bookmaking gruntle, part 2

To recap: there was a thread on Twitter by Incunabula that went viral a few weeks ago. In James Burke-ian Connections style, Incunabula says that "Cheese 🧀 is one of the 5 things the Western book as we know it depends on. The other four are snails 🐌, Jesus ✝️, underwear 🩲 and spectacles 👓." When I re-watched James Burke's "Connections" a year or so ago, in the places where I actually knew some of the history he was covering, mostly I just found myself thinking, "that's way oversimplified and leaving out a lot in order to sound neat." But sometimes, I would think, "that's just not so." This post covers one of the "that's just plain false" parts of Incunabula's highly Eurocentric and inaccurate thread.

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