Johannes Gutenberg
Author: Fran Rees
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780756509897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohannes Gutenberg, a man of the Renaissance, developed a printing press and transformed the world of books.
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Johannes Gutenberg: Printing Press Innovator
Author: Sue Vander Hook
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 160453916X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title examines the remarkable life of Johannes Gutenberg and his innovation of the printing press. Readers will learn about Gutenberg's background and education, as well as his creation of the Gutenberg Bible for the Catholic Church. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Publishing Pioneers is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Fine Print
Author: Joann Johansen Burch
Publisher: LernerClassroom
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 0876145659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts the story of the German printer credited with the invention of printing with movable type.
Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press
Author: Diana Childress
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0761340246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan one invention really change the world? Before the mid-fifteenth century, books were printed by hand, making them rare and expensive. Reading and learning remained a privilege of the wealthy—until Johannes Gutenberg developed a machine called the printing press. Gutenberg, a German metalworker, began in the 1440s by making movable type—small metal letters that were arranged to form words and sentences, replacing handwritten letters. Movable type fit into frames on the printing press, and the press then produced many copies of the same page. As movable type and the printing press made book production much faster and less expensive, reading material of all kinds became available to a far wider audience. In Gutenberg’s time, Europe was already on the brink of a new age—an explosion of world exploration, scientific discoveries, and political and religious changes. Gutenberg’s printing press helped propel Europe into the modern era, and his legacy remains in the thousands of books and newspapers printed each year to keep us informed, entertained, and connected. Indeed, Gutenberg’s development of the printing press became one of history’s pivotal moments.
Johannes Gutenberg
Author: Henry Freeman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-04-22
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781717188588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohannes Gutenberg Archimedes once said, "Give me but a firm spot on which to stand and I shall move the earth." Well, Johannes Gutenberg must have been standing on granite because his impact on the world has been earth-shattering. Before his time, books were a rarity, only affordable for the rich or influential. So, in order to make books accessible for everyone, Gutenberg invented a printing press using movable type. Inside you will read about... - Gutenberg's Early Childhood - The Printing Press - Impact of German Movable Type Printing Press - Gutenberg's Books - Later Life and Death And much more! Printing became faster and cheaper. Suddenly books were available everywhere, which led to the lower classes in society learning to read and to write. People were discovering books, but they were unearthing much more than what they were reading. There was an explosion of information, very much like the Information Age of today, which set people on quests for the truth. This would lead to the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment, where fundamental human truths were challenged at every level. And it all started with a book.
Justification of Johann Gutenberg
Author: Blake Morrison
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2010-05-14
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0385672187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAround 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose heretical invention was to change history. Some sixty years later he died — robbed of his business, his printing presses, and, so he thought, his immortality. In his dazzling first novel, Morrison gives us Gutenberg’s “testament” — his justification, dictated to one of the young scribes his invention will soon put out of work. Thus Morrison conjures up the haunting figure of Gutenberg himself: a man who gambled everything — money, honour, friendship and a woman’s love — on the greatest invention of the last millennium.
Johannes Gutenberg: Man of the Millennium: A Brief Look at the Printing Revolution and the Power of Books
Author: Aaron J. Keirns
Publisher: Little River Publishing
Published: 2018-04-15
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780692104187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an introduction to the life and work of Johannes Gutenberg, the man who invented the printing press. Gutenberg has been called the "Man of the Millennium" by Time-Life Magazine and others. In the mid-15th century he developed the first practical system for making movable type. His invention allowed books to be mass produced for the first time in history. This book contains a wealth of information about Gutenberg and his invention. It has many fascinating photographs and illustrations, including a simplified schematic that shows how Gutenberg made his movable metal type. Today we take books for granted. But before Gutenberg's printing press, books were a luxury only the wealthy could afford. Gutenberg's invention changed our world forever. The ability to reproduce books efficiently and economically launched humanity into a new age of information, education and enlightenment for the masses. This is the story of a remarkable man and his magnificent machine.
Johann Gutenberg Cl
Author: Bruce Koscielniak
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 0618263519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the modern printing industry, including how paper and ink are made, looking particularly at the printing press invented by Gutenberg around 1450 but also at its precursors.
Gutenberg
Author: Stephan Füssel
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Published: 2020-03-01
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1912208687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNamed “Man of the Millennium” in 1999, Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of one of the most influential and revolutionary inventions in Europe’s history: a printing press with mechanical movable type. This development sparked the printing revolution, which is regarded as the milestone of the second millennium and represents one of the central contributions in the turn to modernity. His printing press came to play a key role in the development of the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Age of Enlightenment, providing the material foundation for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses. His invention revolutionized the way that information is shared and broadened the boundaries of who has access to written knowledge. Paving the way for bibliophiles of today, the Gutenberg Bible of 1454 remains one of the most famous books in history. Gutenberg’s technical innovations remained unrivalled for almost 350 years, until industrialization of the printing industry and the digital revolution built on the advances that he began, increasing the rate at which information is spread. Despite his significance in forming the world as we know it, there has not yet been a rigorous and accessible biography of Gutenberg published in English. Written by the leading expert on Gutenberg, Füssel’s biography brings together high academic standards and thorough historical details in a highly readable text that conveys everything you need to know about the man who changed printing forever.
Johann Gutenberg and His Bible
Author: Janet Ing
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only work in English to survey Gutenberg scholarship from the fifteenth century to the mid-1980s. It includes a detailed discussion of the 42-line Bible of 1455. Designed by Abe Lerner, and set and printed in Monotype Van Dijck by Michael & Winifred Bixler.
