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Dawn
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Topic: Today in history Posted: 14-Aug-2004 at 10:59 |
An old thread that I thought should be revived.
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The first book ever printed is published by a German astrologer named Faust. He is thrown in jail while trying to sell books in Paris. Authorities concluded that all the identical books meant Faust had dealt with the devil. |
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Posted: 14-Aug-2004 at 13:15 |
i thought the first book ever printed was gutenburgs bible?
Or for that matter the lotus sutra.
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Posted: 15-Aug-2004 at 11:21 |
On t his day, August 15, 60 years ago, Allied forces conducted a
second, less well known landing in Southern France, operation Anvil.
35 years ago today, the woodstock festivil was held.
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Posted: 15-Aug-2004 at 11:26 |
i thought the first book ever printed was gutenburgs bible?
Or for that matter the lotus sutra. |
Hmm, it was the first fully printed bible yes, but not necessarily the first fully printed book.
And i think you mean the Diamond sutra, the oldest ever dated printed
text found, dating to around 850 AD, though with 5 pages or so, its not
much of a book.
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Posted: 15-Aug-2004 at 14:33 |
Originally posted by Dawn
An old thread that I thought should be revived.
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The first book ever printed is published by a German astrologer named Faust. He is thrown in jail while trying to sell books in Paris. Authorities concluded that all the identical books meant Faust had dealt with the devil. |
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The Chinese invented printing hundreds of years before this, so I think it is likely there is an older book somewhere, waiting to be found.
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Posted: 15-Aug-2004 at 14:42 |
Well, as mentioned, theres the Diamond Sutra, but its not much of a book.
But this is a book that was mass printed, not just a couple copies,
which was the case with many printed (partialy printed or otherwise)
texts and books before this date, both in Europe and Asia.
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Posted: 15-Aug-2004 at 22:38 |
But the Chinese used wood block printing. Gutenburg used movable type (which meant you could make printings of multiple pages easier).
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Posted: 15-Aug-2004 at 22:44 |
chinese invented movable type too, but it was impractical for their script so they stuck to wood block.
It isn't a logical leap to start from wood block to movable type.
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Rome is sacked (410AD). The Goths under Alaric sack Rome.
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