Early pop-up books were actually intended for adults and academics. In 1250, the English monk Matthew Paris (1200~1259) compiled the "English Chronicle" in his study, and he wanted to calculate the dates of major Christian holidays, so he brought many manuscripts containing relevant materials.
Since the information in the manuscript was recorded in a circular form, Matthew Perris had to turn the codex from time to time to record, which was extremely inconvenient.
Just as he was worried about how to solve this problem, he had a wit.
He thought to himself: "Copy the ring-shaped tables of different sizes on the manuscript onto the parchment, and then cut the parchment into large and small discs, and string them with cotton thread in order of size, and paste them on the codex, so that you don't have to turn the codex frequently, you can easily read the contents of the codex by turning the discs by hand." ”
Perhaps Matthew Perris did not know at the time that his design had created the first pop-up book mechanism in history, the turntable.
In addition, Matthew Perris invented the page turn, and used the turntable and page turn extensively in the English Chronicle.
The English Chronicle thus became the earliest pop-up book in history.
Turntables and page turning were later used in astronomy books , medicine and biology in anatomy textbooks.
Although early pop-up books were interactive, they lacked three-dimensionality and did not have enough variety of forms.
It wasn't until the 18th century that pop-up books ushered in an important watershed in their development. With the rise of the British children's market, the Englishman Robert Sayer published the first pop-up book designed for children in 1765, making pop-up books gradually equated with children's books.
Due to the immaturity of pop-up books and publishers at that time, pop-up books were only regarded as toy books. Later, pop-up books were called Movable Book, Mechanical Book, ToyBook, or the mechanism used in the book, such as Pull-the-tab or Lift-the-flap.
It wasn't until the 1930s that Disney named its pop-up children's pop-up books.
"Pop-up" has since become a proper noun for pop-up books. When electronic devices became an essential piece of equipment in modern society, the status of paper books was in jeopardy, and people asserted that paper books were dying. Pop-up books became popular as soon as they were found to be very suitable for children to understand things and stimulate children's desire to explore.
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