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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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