Chapter 5 was all about printing coming, obviously, but anyways this an interesting chapter. It started off talking about typography. They define typography as the term for "printing with independent, movable, and reusable bits of metal or wood, each of which has raised letter form on one face". Typography is up there with one of the most important inventions. Writing allowed people to keep records, and document what was happening. Paper was a important invention to allow printing to happen. Movable type was created around this time as well. Johann Gensfleisch created the first book that had printing in it. Gutenburg was the guy that was known for the invention of movable type. One last topic covered in this chapter was the copperplate engraving. Engraving is defined as "printing from an image that is incised or cut down into the printing surface".
One thing I found interesting from this chapter was that Gutenberg had many things to do with this chapter. No only he invented typographic printing, may have been involved in the development of copperplate engraving as well.
The question I have from this chapter is when was color first used in printing?
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