Book
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- A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex (plural, codices). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page.
As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle´s Physics is called a book. In an unrestricted sense, a book is the compositional whole of which such sections, whether called books or chapters or parts, are parts.
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Diarium Victor Blüthgen
Dieses aus dem Nachlaß Victor...
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Image: Heimatmuseum Zörbig - CC BY-NC-SA -
Das Siebengestirn der Kriegshelden
Das Siebengestirn der...
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Image: Museum Schloss Moritzburg Zeitz - CC BY-NC-SA -
Porträt Sophia Herzogin von Liegnitz
Das Gemälde zeigt Sophia...
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Image: Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt - CC BY-NC-SA -
Natalis Alexandri, Band 1, 1785
Natalis Alexandri Historia...
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Image: Museum am Strom, Bingen - CC BY-NC-SA
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