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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 27, July 1, 2001, Article 4

RE-EXAMINING GUTENBERG'S ROLE 

   NBS Board Member Larry Mitchell notes: "I received today 
   the Spring 2001 Asylum.  Another very nicely done issue... 
   thank you! 

   Douglas Saville notes in his article on the Roman Imperial 
   Coinage (RIC) series that  "(p)rinting from moveable type was 
   perfected at Mainz in the 1450's by Johann Gutenberg...." 
   In fact, recent scholarship casts serious doubt on this assertion. 
   With all due credit to Saville, however, this traditional scenario 
   was not seriously questioned until early this year, by scholars 
   working at Princeton University.   A nice summary of their 
   findings can be found at 

      http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/01/0212/ 

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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