With the invention of printing – which is a combination of the production of movable type, typesetting and printing – in the fifteenth century, the ways of traditional book production changed drastically. Printing itself was not revolutuionary. This had been done from woodblocks in the Far East and also in the Middel East from around the turn of the first millennium. [an abridged version of the Dutch text]

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