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The rise of the Internet’s World Wide Web in the mid-1990s launched an unlikely hero into the media spotlight: Johann Gutenberg, the 15th-century inventor of movable printing type and technological ...
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Starting with inventor Johannes Gutenberg in the 1450s, letterpress printing using movable types revolutionised the world, ...
Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust’s Biblia latina (Mainz, 1454–1455) represents the first substantial book printed from moveable type on a printing press. Without question, it is a milestone in ...
The Gutenberg Revolution: The story of a genius and an invention that changed the world by John Man, Review, £14.99, ISBN 0747245045 EUROPE changed for ever about 500 years ago. Johan Gutenberg's ...
Then in 1455, in Germany, Johan Gutenberg created the first, mechanical moveable type printed copies of the entire text.
The Bible was printed by Johann Gutenberg using movable type. About 180 copies were printed. Nearly 50 survive. The Bible was the first substantial printed book in the Western world.