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This short video briefly explores the history of paper, paper-making techniques, and highlights the importance of paper as part of the evolution of mass communication. The Printing Press Inquiry Un…
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Printing Press Inquiry Unit (Alternate Formative Performance Task, Supporting Question 1) Potato Stamp Monogram Create a pad of personally monogrammed writing paper in the style of Gutenberg pri…
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Printing Press - Document 3F Excerpt Early Printed Manuscript. The illustrations for this 1572 German translation of humanist Petrarch's ''De Remediis Utriusque Fortuna'' are among the most famous w…
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) This black basalt slab is perhaps the most famous hieroglyphic inscription known. Not only was it a beautiful example of ancient writing, it was also the key to unders…
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) One of few remaining block printed dharani scrolls, the oldest surviving examples of printing on paper. Hyakuman means "one million" in Japanese. One million pagodas w…
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) The Chinese began printing from movable type in the eleventh century. There is no connection between this and its invention in Europe four centuries later. Movable typ…
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) Produced for about 5000 years, these seals were made by engraving, in reverse, on a small stone using metal tools. The design becomes apparent only after being rolled …
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) This Coptic manuscript, bound in wood boards dates from the 13th century and is hand-lettered and painted on parchment. A Coptic stitch runs through the folded signatu…
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Printing Press - Document 3C Excerpt Woodcut illustration in medical textbook. De Humani Corporis Fabrica... Basel, 1543. Woodcut. National Library of Medicine. Andreas Vesalius [anatomist] (1514-…
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Printing Press - Document 3A Excerpt Early Printed Manuscript Visit Source Download PDF…
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