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history of topography, as well as its
modern applications. Bibliography
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and legal or other public records. Were pretty sure that Gutenberg was the first printer in Europe, but we know this from court records of his bankruptcies, not because
his work was carefully documented for posterity. An interesting story, that conflicts with our History 101 lesson that Gutenberg invented the printing press
is the legend of Laurens Janszoon Koster (1370- ) Later in his life, in or around the year 1423 (by some accounts as late as 1428 or
1430) he found himself walking in the nearby woods one day with his grandchildren, and for their amusement he began to idly cut letters from the bark of a beech
tree. The letters fell into the sand, and from the impression that they left the idea came to him that letters such as these might also be impressed upon paper
in order to print books - and thus, in that inspired moment, was planted the seed that would later become the invention in Europe circa 1440 of the wondrous art
of printing with moveable type, an innovation which came a dozen-odd years before Gutenberg printed his acclaimed 42-line Bible (from 1452 to 1455). Koster then went on to experiment with
block printing and improve the quality of ink employed (as the ink generally used by scribes tended to run when used in a press) and, with the help of his
son-in-law, Thomas Pieter, produced the book Speculum Human? Salvationis, and then continued to improve his methods with various types of wood, then lead, and finally mixtures of lead and tin.
With the success of his invention, he hired a number of assistants, including one Johannes Faust. It was this Faust as the story goes, who himself became adept at
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