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Publisher's Note: 'Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible,' wrote celebrated artist Paul Klee. A History of Writing adopts the same principle-writing doesn't reproduce speech, it makes it visible. Image-making evolved into writing and thereby governed the way it was used, as confirmed by the fact that the invention of ideograms was linked to divination and star-gazing in both Mesopotamia and China. This volume is divided into three sections. The first is devoted the oldest, non-alphabetic methods of writing, and to the ingenious developments devised by civilizations that chose to adapt them to their language and culture. The second focuses on the history and spread of alphabets. The third shows how the Western alphabet has reincorporated imagery into writing in various hand-written and printed forms, leading to questions about how different writing systems are now affected by computer technology.