Reading Comprehension
The primitive processes of printing on paper were first discovered by the Chinese long ago, but because the Chinese had too many characters in their langue and also because they failed to employ ink in typographic printing, they could not develop their inventions. The moveable type printing had not realize its potentialities until the Dutch improved it in fourteenth century by using ink and moveable metal type there existed in Holland a series of books printed from moveable type before Johannes Gutenberg, who was the Father of new aged printing, with his associates, Jehann Fust and Peter Schoffer, printed the first Bible (Mazarin Bible). The first folio Latin Bible was issued in fact in 1456 at Mainz, Germany. It was believed to have originated from the Vulgate Bible produced about 1452. The primitive workmanship of this book and the roughness of typography is considered proof that this group of man was under the influence of the Dutch school of printing. The invention of the process of printing from moveable type was destined to exercise a far-reaching influence on all the living languages of Europe. Introduced into England about 1476 by William Cazton, who had learned the art on the continent, printing made such rapid progress that a mere century later it was observed that handwritten books were seldom to be met with and almost never used. Some idea of the rapidity continued with which the new process swept forward may be had from the fact that in Europe the number of books printed before the year 1500 reaches a surprising figure. The majority of these, it is true, were in Latin, whereas it is in the modern languages that the effect of the printing was chiefly to be felt. Many books in English had appeared by the seventeenth century, ranging all the way from small pamphlets to huge volumes. The result was to bring books which had formerly been the expansive luxury of the few, within the reach of all.
อ่านจับใจความThe primitive processes of printing on paper were first discovered by the Chinese long ago, but because the Chinese had too many characters in their langue and also because they failed to employ ink in typographic printing, they could not develop their inventions. The moveable type printing had not realize its potentialities until the Dutch improved it in fourteenth century by using ink and moveable metal type there existed in Holland a series of books printed from moveable type before Johannes Gutenberg, who was the Father of new aged printing, with his associates, Jehann Fust and Peter Schoffer, printed the first Bible (Mazarin Bible). The first folio Latin Bible was issued in fact in 1456 at Mainz, Germany. It was believed to have originated from the Vulgate Bible produced about 1452. The primitive workmanship of this book and the roughness of typography is considered proof that this group of man was under the influence of the Dutch school of printing. The invention of the process of printing from moveable type was destined to exercise a far-reaching influence on all the living languages of Europe. Introduced into England about 1476 by William Cazton, who had learned the art on the continent, printing made such rapid progress that a mere century later it was observed that handwritten books were seldom to be met with and almost never used. Some idea of the rapidity continued with which the new process swept forward may be had from the fact that in Europe the number of books printed before the year 1500 reaches a surprising figure. The majority of these, it is true, were in Latin, whereas it is in the modern languages that the effect of the printing was chiefly to be felt. Many books in English had appeared by the seventeenth century, ranging all the way from small pamphlets to huge volumes. The result was to bring books which had formerly been the expansive luxury of the few, within the reach of all.
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