Show first known use 0 of paper there is no country w i alcha has not had its learned and elaborate inquirers as to the means through which europe became acquainted some time about the eleventh century with the article of paper casiri however while employed in translating arabic writers has disse discovered the real place from which paper came it has been known in china where its constituent part is silk from rom time immemorial in the thirtieth year of tic the hegira in the middle of the savenh century a manufactory of similar paper was established and in fifty eight deais years afterward one you zef amru of mecca discovered the art of making it with cotton an article more commonly used in arabia than silk |