> This is entirely ahistoric. Pamphlets and books published in volumes, where each volume would today be a chapter, was the norm. The novel is a modern invention.
I’d be curious to see some examples but I doubt these are anywhere near the size of a one or two page blog post.
Victorian-era serialised fiction [1]. The Federalist Papers. Everything on clay tablets. Technologically speaking, you don't get a lot of large volumes until the advent of the printing press and mass literacy [2].
I’d be curious to see some examples but I doubt these are anywhere near the size of a one or two page blog post.
The referenced example is principia mathematica