Wooden movable type with revolving case
Tipos móviles de madera y caja giratoria
- Date
- 1313 · confidence high
- Place
- Jingde, Anhui, Yuan China
- Credited to
- Wang Zhen (Nong Shu)
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
More than 60,000 wooden type pieces arranged on revolving tables by rhyme so the compositor could find them quickly; a local chronicle was printed with them in 1298. A practical system of typographic composition in Chinese.
What it led to
- the printing of lengthy works with movable type in China and Korea
- techniques for organising the printing workshop
- the agricultural treatise Nong Shu as a widely circulated manual
Built on
- Woodblock printing868
- Ceramic movable typec. 1044
- Ceramic movable type
- Woodblock printing
Made possible
- Bronze movable type (Hua Sui)1490
- Uyghur and Tangut wooden movable type printing