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Movable type printing was invented between 1041 and 1048 in Song dynasty China. Textual evidence includes the Dream Pool Essays written in 1088, which attributed the invention of the movable type to Bi Sheng. In the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg independently invented movable type printing in Europe.

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