MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Movable Type, Colonial Advocate, Scientific Method
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Block printing. (take a long time to make) Diamond sutra by wang chieh (868 c. e) made with block printing. Marco polo brought block printing to europe in 1295. Taking little elements and carving those one at a time. Use it in a lot of different texts. Johannes gutenberg created the first printing press between 1453 and 1456. Technology used to make it came from a wine press. Animal hides were used when paper was a novelty. Latin bible was the first book to be printed by the gutenberg press. Chouser"s canterberry tales first english book to be printed. We can print more stuff, instead of hand copying things. Hand copied bible is not going to go that far. Any kind of story that is being written down. (terms of the story). Shape of paper and the book. (different sizes of bibles). Relationship between how people are asking for things (monarchy) Growing bearcraucy, the king and people in the country
