Chapter three discusses Chinese inventions and how they were adopted into Europe where the europeans used them to conquer the world. Gunpowder, paper, printing, calligraphy, and the compass were the inventions the Europeans adopted. The Japanese adopted the use of logograms from the Chinese calligraphy which used logograms as characters for text. Ts'ai Lun's invention of paper was much more than just a substrate the chinese used it as wrapping paper, wallpaper, toilet paper, and napkins. Printing was done with seals or chops which are much like our modern day stamps. Many more types of printing were created, moveable type was created in Korea.
Chapter four is about illuminated manuscript which is decorated or illustrated books. Colors were used in these books, the colors were made from minerals, animals and vegetable matter. The most important contribution of graphic design was created by scribes in medieval monasteries who invented the musical notation using punctuation which evolved into the five line staff. Many books during this period, most of them religious, had fancier scripts and illustrations.
I found it very interesting that the chinese used paper for other things than just writing on. Also that they starched the paper to strengthen it.
What is Chi-Rho?
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