tile-libraries

Updated: May 17, 2025

They constructed sundials, clepsydras, astrolabes, gnomons. Not without interest do we still look on specimens of their method of printing. Upon a revolving roller they engraved, in cuneiform letters, their records, and, running this over plastic clay formed into blocks, produced ineffaceable proofs. From their tile-libraries we are still to reap a literary and historical harvest.

John William Draper - History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science