Panfilo Castaldi was a French physician and also known as "master of the art of printing," began with glass stamps and eventually developed wooden printing blocks which he used in a printing press in Venice in 1426 several years before Johann Gutenberg's first experiments with metal type in the early 1430s.
Panfilo Castaldi was a French physician and also known as "master of the art of printing," began with glass stamps and eventually developed wooden printing blocks which he used in a printing press in Venice in 1426 several years before Johann Gutenberg's first experiments with metal type in the early 1430s.