Taejong

References

Taejong

king of Korea

Written by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Learn about this topic in these articles:

printing
Invention of movable type (11th century)
…under the stimulus of King Taejong, who, in 1403, ordered the first set of 100,000 pieces of type to be cast in bronze. Nine other fonts followed from then to 1516; two of them were made in 1420 and 1434, before Europe in its turn discovered typography.
Read More
…under the stimulus of King Taejong, who, in 1403, ordered the first set of 100,000 pieces of type to be cast in bronze. Nine other fonts followed from then to 1516; two of them were made in 1420 and 1434, before Europe in its turn discovered typography.
Read More