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71.) news flash: europe not center of known universe after all
Over one day ago | Sat May 12 3:14:00 PDT 2007
but i just wanted to share something i learned today completely by accident. as it turns out, gutenberg didn't invent movable type first after all. in fact, a fellow named bi sheng did, in china, way back in the 1040's sometime. ...
From MGL
72.) china: part 2
Over one day ago | Thu Sep 20 3:27:00 PDT 2007
but gutenberg did not invent moveable type. moveable type was really invented by bi sheng between 1041 and 1048, four hundred years before gutenberg. no ?modern world? would have been possible without the widespread use of moveable type ...
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73.) (part one)carly fiorina remarks at tsinghua university
Over one day ago | Mon Feb 12 2:47:00 PST 2007
as a company, we actually at hp are especially indebted to a man named bi sheng, who had the vision in 1045 ad to invent the world?s first movable type, which led to its first printer?a full 300 years before gutenberg?s invention of ...
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74.) inventions of china paper the invention of paper greatly ...
Over one day ago | Tue Aug 22 2:31:00 PDT 2006
bi sheng created movable type printing more than 400 years earlier than it was invented in europe. an image of printing. gun powder. the invention of gun powder was the most significant acheivements of the middle ages in china. ...
From shimin
75.) hello world!
Over one day ago | Sat Oct 27 16:31:00 PDT 2007
shen kuo wrote extensively about movable type printing invented by bi sheng, and because of his written works the legacy of bi sheng and the modern understanding of the earliest movable type has been handed down to later generations.
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76.) the revolution will be digitized
Over one day ago | Sat Nov 25 18:51:00 PST 2006
1040s bi sheng invented movable type printing in china. 1440s johannes gutenberg invented the printing press in germany. 1474 venetian statute granted patent monopoly for 10 years after communicating a new invention to the republic ...
From alex
77.) islam, the greeks and the scientific revolution (part 3)
Over one day ago | Mon Oct 15 11:12:00 PDT 2007
movable type printing had been invented in china by bi sheng around 1040, but it never gained widespread popularity. the nature of the chinese language with its nonalphabetic script presumably didn't help. to solve this dilemma, ...
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78.) printing
Over one day ago | Fri Aug 10 4:21:00 PDT 2007
movable type printing was first invented in 1041 by bi sheng in china. sheng used clay type, which broke easily, but wang zhen later carved a more durable type from wood by 1298 ad, and developed a complex system of revolving tables and ...
From jayanta deka
79.) when dreams speak
Over one day ago | Thu Aug 24 5:59:00 PDT 2006
... chae yun-eui (???) from goryeo dynasty (an ancient korean nation,) inventor of an iron printing press in 1234, over 200 years ahead of gutenberg. and the first movable type was invented by chinese bi sheng between 1041 to 1048. ...
From Kyriellus
80.) the power of community
Over one day ago | Tue Jul 4 10:25:00 PDT 2006
friedman likens it to the history-changing nature of the invention of the printing press. movable type was invented in china by bi sheng between 1041 to 1048 but the use of movable type to mass produce printed works was popularized by a ...
From nativity
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