DISCOVERY OF PRINTING
Pi Shing was cutting a precept of Confucius in a block of wood one hot day. The thought came to him that he might lessen his labour of reproduction by having separate blocks for each character. This was in the 11th century. But the multitudinous symbols of the language of his fathers overwhelmed the scheme. The Chinese kept to their wood-cutting. In 1454, the German printers at Maintz thought of the same thing and the size of their alphabet vas k suitable. Printing in England began when William Caxton returned to his native land and set up his press in 1477.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 5 (Supplement)
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104DISCOVERY OF PRINTING Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 5 (Supplement)
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