Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Printing Press Delay

Andrew Bey writes (page 5; introduction)
...It was not until 1727 that a Hungarian from Transylvania, who had converted from Unitarianism to Islam, was able to set up in Istanbul a first printing press using Arabic characters. It was closed down after a few years, and printing had to be reintroduced later.
Interesting.

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