The 1906 edition of Algebra for Beginners by H.
Moore, a distinguished mathematician at the University of Chicago, advocated usage of paper with 'squared lines' by students of high schools and universities. Buxton of England, who patented paper, printed with a rectangular coordinate grid, in 1794. The first commercially published 'coordinate paper' is usually attributed to a Dr. The owner has used these grids to create block pictures in black and white and in colour. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns a pattern book dated to around 1596 in which each page bears a grid printed with a woodblock. Graph paper is available either as loose leaf paper or bound in notebooks. It is commonly found in mathematics and engineering education settings and in laboratory notebooks. The lines are often used as guides for plotting graphs of functions or experimental data and drawing curves.
Graph paper, coordinate paper, grid paper, or squared paper is writing paper that is printed with fine lines making up a regular grid. Writing paper with a grid Three styles of loose leaf graph paper: 10 squares per centimeter ('millimeter paper'), 5 squares per inch (“engineering paper'), 4 squares per inch (“quad paper')
