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   Benoît Régent-Kloeckner (brkloeckner@piaille.fr)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 22:46:44 JST Benoît Régent-Kloeckner

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   • Jonah Stein
   • Nina Kalinina

   @jonahstein @nina_kali_nina Oh but pages where often folded, bound, and left to be cut by the reader!
   I know that first hand: a dozen years ago, I had to check a mathematical paper from the XIXth century by Camille Jordan (the rascal had simingly proven the theorem I was after some 135 year ahead of me). My wonderful library had the volume of Liouville's journal it was published in. Pages where not cut, I had to cut them to read. Most exotic math experience in my life.

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     Jonah Stein (jonahstein@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 22:46:45 JST Jonah Stein

     • Nina Kalinina

     @nina_kali_nina Now, why a full page was ~exactly 4 times as large as Quarto used in books?

     Most likely this has to do with how books printed are bound. Each printed sheet going into a binding process is is actually 4 pages of the book: Front and back of that page plus front and back of the another page that is then folded and stitched together in the binding process. Modern presses actually print much larger sheets and then they are cut up before going through binding processes but even 125 years ago they probably printed the sheets and cut them apart because it was cheaper/more efficient.