Today, modern bookbinding is divided between hand binding by individual craftsmen working in a one room studio shop and commercial bindings mass-produced by high speed machines in a production line factory.oday, modern bookbinding is divided between hand binding by individual craftsmen working in a one room studio shop and commercial bindings mass-produced by high speed machines in a production line factory.
The Ebers Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Ebers, is an Egyptian medical papyrus of herbal knowledge dating to c. 1550 BC.he papyrus was written in about 1500 BC, but it is believed to have been copied from earlier texts. The Ebers Papyrus is a 110-page scroll, which is about 20 meters long.
It is one of the two well-known Mathematical Papyri along with the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus. The Rhind Papyrus is larger than the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, while the latter is older than the former.The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus dates to the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt.It was copied by the scribe Ahmes (i.e., Ahmose; Ahmes is an older transcription favoured by historians of mathematics), from a now-lost text from the reign of king Amenemhat III (12th dynasty).he first part of the Rhind papyrus consists of reference tables and a collection of 20 arithmetic and 20 algebraic problems. The problems start out with simple fractional expressions, followed by completion (sekhem) problems and more involved linear equations (aha problems).