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Show Gutenberg Not First to Use Movable Type The first hook printed In Europe with movable type was the famous Gutenberg Bible. It was printed In 14S0-M. Reside It Doctor. Vollbehr recently exhibited a Chinese "book printed with mowible types long before be-fore the Gutenberg Rible appeared, and indeed the Chinese printer PI had I so printed books 900 years hefure Gutenberg Gut-enberg was born. In all thar time the Chinese hud been using movable type, publishing books of such beamy and perfection that they are today the admiration ad-miration of all bibliophiles, and Europe Eu-rope knew nothtug about it. .Vut even Marco Polo, who went to China in the middle of the Thirteenth centurv and became the guest of Kublui Khan, brought back to Europe the invention that was to electrify civilization. Within 25 years after the Gutenberg Bible came out, printing with movable type had spread into every civilized country in Europe. Fifty years later the French and Italians particularly had joined the Germans in the printing print-ing of books which for craftsmanship and typography have not been surpassed sur-passed from that time to this. How big the world wns in that distant dis-tant time I How wholly unlike it is our world of today, in which not only news flies daily between tills country coun-try and China, but as like as not there is In the oriental sky somewhere a western plane on a non-stop flight from London or Purls to one of the capltuls of Asia. Imagine a Gutenberg Guten-berg In our time announcing a discovery discov-ery 800 years old I |
