There were at that time four alphabets in use simultaneously-that is, the Latin, the Greek, the Hebraic, and the Arabic-so that each language could make itself visible in its characteristic way. Now there was also a dim...
All the technical requirements (presses, inks, page-shaped supports, even the art of negative casting in metal) were then already in place. But there was as yet no printing because no one was yet aware that by drawing ...