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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Printer, Wang Zhen, Motte v Faulkner, Clay Huffman, Queen's Printer, Joseph Dufour et Cie, Perkins Bacon, Menasseh Ben Israel, Guillaume Vandive, Christophe Plantin, David S. Rose, Ibrahim Muteferrika, Merten de Keyser, Alois Auer, Budd and Bartram, William Colenso, William Mackrell, Bo idar Vukovi, William Gullick, Objet Geometries, Gaspar Heltai, Francysk Skaryna, Israel Dov Frumkin, John Fleeming, Victor Hammer, Colm O Lochlainn, The Firecracker Press, Estienne Roger, Laurence Andrewe, Abraham Frumkin, Christoph Froschauer, Pyotr Mstislavets, Stephen Stolowski, Jakob Karweyse, QOOP, Francesco Matraire, Daniel Bomberg, Nicholas Hill, The Printing House, Hieronymus Froben, Arend De Keysere, Guillaume Le Be, Levinus Hulsius, Jan Moretus, Ji i Nigrin, Mikula Klaudyan, George Lackington, Queen's Printer, Ontario. Excerpt: Wang Zhen (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: Wang Zh n; Wade-Giles: Wang Chen, fl. 1290 - 1333) was an official of the Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368 AD) of China. He is credited with the invention of the first wooden movable type printing in the world, while his predecessor of the Song Dynasty (960 - 1279 AD), Bi Sheng (990 - 1051 AD), invented the world's first earthenware movable type printing. His illustrated agricultural treatise was also one of the most advanced of its day, covering a wide range of equipment and technologies available in the late 13th and early 14th century. Wang Zhen was born in Shandong province, and spent many years as an official of both Anhui and Jiangxi provinces. From the years 1290 to 1301, he was a magistrate for Jingde, Anhui province, where he invented the use of wooden movable type printing. The invention of wooden movable type was described in Wang Zhen's publication of 1313 AD, known as the Nong Shu ( ), or Book of...
