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Terry Decker t.d.decker at att.net
Sat Oct 16 19:03:10 PDT 2010


> >While he was among the earliest to use movable type, Gutenberg's claim to 
> >fame was the creation of molded metal movable type with a standardized 
> >typeface that resembled that of a handwritten manuscript.  An expert 
> >would have known this.
>
> Not only the use of movable type, but the method of manufacturing type, 
> without having to carve each and every letter.
>
> Ranvaig

To the contrary, the method of molding metal was a standard jeweler's 
process, well known to a great many people including the jeweler, Johannes 
Gutenberg.  He applied it to the process of making type.

Bear 




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