Origins of printing
Posted by OERT - Apr 27, 2012 History 0
Printing press, movable types, ink and paper in the emergence of press. Paper, printing and movable types manufacturing process. Gutenberg’s printing press. Incunabula: characteristics. The spreading of the printing press and great printers of the XVth and XVIth centuries.
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