Note 50 — Early Typography. CHAPTER III.

“Wimpheling, one of the most learned men of his time, who narrowly escaped persecution for the Protestant tendency of his writings, and who among other things which proved him to have been a thinker in advance of his time, founded a literary society at Strasburg, which soon became celebrated, and the tendencies of which were afterwards praised even by the critical Erasmus.”—Humphreys, p. 82.