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Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltonia by Walter Charleton, 1654
 
'Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltonia' by Walter Charleton was published in London in 1654. It contains several mentions of paper folding.

A full copy of the work can be accessed online here.

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Analysis

Paper Lanterns

Towards the foot of page 186 the text reads, ' Afterward, fold the cloth, as Boyes do paper for Lanterns, or lay it in waves or pleights of different magnitude ...'

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Paper Pans

Towards the foot of page 299 the text reads, 'And from the same Cause is it, that a sheet of the finest Venice Paper,if so folded upwards in its Margines, as to hold Oyle infused into it, and laid upon a gridiron over burning coals, doth endure the flame without inflammation for a good space: Which some Cooks observing, use to fry Bacon upon a sheet of paper only.'

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