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1560
 
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A book to teach good handwriting is published by Gianfrancesco Cresci, with examples engraved on copper plates       
1569
 
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Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator publishes a map of the world, using the projection now known by his name       
1595
 
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A year after Mercator's death, his son publishes a bound collection of his maps with the title Atlas, or Cosmographic Meditations       
1640
 
   
The first book published in England's American colonies is Bay Psalm Book, a revised translation of the psalms      
1649
 
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Rembrandt creates an etching so desirable that it becomes known as the Hundred Guilder Print      
c. 1650
 
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The pleasure districts of Edo and Kyoto provide the delights of ukiyo-e, the 'floating world'      
c. 1658
 
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Prince Rupert of the Rhine pioneers mezzotint, the first half-tone technique in printing       
1690
 
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The French scientist Denis Papin, while professor of mathematics at Marburg, develops the first steam engine to use a piston       
1757
 
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Walpole founds a printing press, the Strawberry Hill Press. See in Google maps   
1768
 
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A French artist, Jean Baptiste le Prince, discovers the aquatint technique in printmaking