Copy and Paste

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This chapter is all about the printing movement in Europe. Printing in Europe started with what is called Xylography,also known as relief printing. Typography which is described in the book as “the term for printing with independent, moveable, and reusable bits of metal or wood each of which has a raised letterform.” Writing gave humanity a means of storing, retrieving, and documenting knowledge and information. Animal skin was very expensive and would sometimes cost more then the book. But in 751 AD the city of Samarkand repelled a Chinese attack and paper makers were captured, the secrets of paper making spread to Baghdad and Damascus and reached Egypt by the 10th century and then spread across Africa and into Europe.

The printing scene began to take off in the 14th and 15th centuries when a man by Gutenberg "Created" the first printing press. consiting of many workers and machinery, which proved to be very expensive Gutenburg's first printing was a 42 line bible which was never completed by Gutenburg because of legal issues. Gutenberg lost his print shop and fell short of his bible by merely pages. His friend continued his business of printing and eventually became the largest in Europe. Gutenberg got funding and reopened his shop and completed a 36 line edition of the bible before dieing in 1468.

I find it interesting how slowly technology advanced in the old days but then you look at modern times and there have been so many advancements in the last couple years. it is just mind boggling to me.

How many people did Gutenburg have working for him?

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This chapter is all about the printing movement in Europe. Printing in Europe started with what is called Xylography, which is just a fancy name for relief printing. This was the introduction if typography which is descibed in the book as the term for printing with independent, moveable, and reusable bits of metal or wood each of which has a raised letterform. Writing gave humanity a means of storing, retrieving, and documenting knowledge and information. This chapter also brought up an important fact about the material used for writing. Animal skin was very expensive and would sometimes cost more then the book. But in 751 AD the city of Samarkand repelled a chinese attack and a few paper makers were captured then the craft of paper making spread to baghdad and damascus and reached egypt by the 10th century and then spread across africa and into europe.

The printing scene began to take off in the 14th and 15 th centuries when a man by Gutenberg "Created" the first printing press. Which consisted of many workers and machinery. Which proved to be very expensive. Gutenburg's first printing was a 42 line bible which never was competed by Gutenburg because of legal issues Gutenberg lost his print shop and fell short of his bible by merely pages. His friend continued his business of printing and eventually became the largest in Europe. Gutenberg got funding and reopened his shop and completed a 36 line edition of the bible before dieing in 1468.

I find it interesting how slowly technology advanced in the old times but then you look at modern times and there have been so many advancements in the last couple years. it is just mind boggling to me.

How many people did Gutenburg have working for him?