...biggest contribution that Johannes Gutenberg has given to history is that he invented the printing press. The printing press is an evolutionary invention that has changed our lives. Without it who knows how we would be copying all of our needed materials. It would take months to accomplish what a printing press or modern day printer could do in a few hours. The printing press really helps us complete tasks that would be very time consuming in a short amount of time. In 1448, Johannes Gutenberg moved back to Mainz. In 1450 he opened his own print shop. He had gotten a loan for 800 guilders from a financier named Johann Fust. He used it to buy the equipment to operate his shop. He used it to buy some of the tools to make...
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...Johannes Gutenberg Moves the World One small idea can spark the imagination and end up changing the world like Gutenberg did through the printing press. When inventing the printing press Gutenberg said, “It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible steams… Through it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light to heretofore unknown to shine amongst men.” His invention caused a light to be scattered throughout our dark world making the earth overall a better place. Through Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press, he gave us light in our dark world by being the first to print the Bible. “Johannes Gutenberg...
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...Deron Millay Art 334 Ingrid Cartwright 22 September 2014 Assignment 4 Essay At it’s very core, graphic design is all about visually communicating ideas. Whether, it be through typography or imagery, one person made this all possible and his name was Johann Gutenberg. Johann Guttenberg was the first man to put all of the ingredients together, specifically the printing press, cast metal type and oil-based inks, to create the first mechanically assisted printed material with moveable type. Moveable type was a method of printing and using movable pieces of hard metal, which would have been pressed into ink and onto the paper. Gutenberg used these “ingredients” to publish the Bible, with is more commonly known now as the “Gutenberg Bible” as shown below. (Eskilson, 2012, 2nd edition)...
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...navigation, search For other uses, see Bible (disambiguation). The Gutenberg Bible, the first printed Bible Page semi-protected Part of a series on The Bible The Malmesbury Bible Canons · Books [show] Authorship · Development [show] Translations · Manuscripts [show] Biblical studies[show] Interpretation[show] Perspectives[show] Wikipedia book Bible book Portal icon Bible portal v · t · e The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a canonical collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. There is no single "Bible" and many Bibles with varying contents exist.[1] The term Bible is shared between Judaism and Christianity, although the contents of each of their collections of canonical texts is not the same. Different religious groups include different books within their Biblical canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books. The Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, contains twenty-four books divided into three parts: the five books of the Torah ("teaching" or "law"), the Nevi'im ("prophets"), and the Ketuvim ("writings"). Christian Bibles range from the sixty-six books of the Protestant...
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...experimented with block printing by the 11th century, Johannes Gutenberg created movable type in the 15th century and invented a machine that is widely known as the printing press (History of the Printing Press, 2007, The Story section, para. 2). This significant discovery led to the publication of books that promoted literacy and expanded knowledge. This paper provides a background and analysis of the social, economic, and political factors that influenced this important discovery. As a result of this invention, the expansion of knowledge challenged many traditional beliefs and created a paradigm shift in human relationships among different regions of the world. There were Social, Economic, and Political Factors that played a huge role in the printing press as well. During the late medieval times, society was making a change into the coming years. Occurring was a pickup in social factors that lead to emerging capitalism, this sparked off more literacy among the wealthy and upper, middle-class. With new interest of literacy and knowledge, the printing press did not satisfy the demand. Manuscripts, prior to the discovery of the printing press, took years to develop. Thereafter, pages were published using time-consuming wood graving techniques with limited reusability. Pages were compromised of a number of blocks jointed together to raise the words off the page and were then pressed and copied onto another (Ament, 2007). Gutenberg first experimented with metal typography referred to...
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...This invention created one of the Western world’s first major printed books, the “Forty-Two Line” Bible. Today I have had the privilege of interviewing the creator of this important artifact, Johannes Gutenberg in his home town of Mainz, Germany. Mr Gutenberg informed me that throughout the Middle Ages books were either hand copied by monks who used quill pens and ink or printed from engraved wooden blocks, either method could take months or even years for completion. In 1436 he began designing...
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...Reformation completely challenged the authority of the Catholic Church during the Renaissance Era because of two men who made an impact, changing many’s point of view. Their names were Johannes Gutenberg and Martin Luther; they shaped a new religion and invented something that was extremely helpful to many citizens at the time, but unfortunately not admired by the Catholic Church. Though they were looked down upon by the Catholic Church, what they did was thanked for making it easier for many, many years in the future. Johannes Gutenberg, a German who created the Gutenberg Press, was an invention worth everything at the time because of how important its use was. Instead of someone hand copying an entire book to sell it off to a person who...
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...it and what inspired him to do so. It will explain the importance the printing press had at the time it was invented. Along with explaining how important the machine was at the time of its invention, this will also explain how the machine is still important today. It is important because it enabled books such as the bible to be produced and helped the spread of ideas. Johan Gutenberg lived in Strasberg, Germany in 1450 when he invented the Printing Press Movable. Information concerning Gutenberg’s life is minimal since history has little knowledge about him. One thing we do know is that he was born in Mainz, Germany, where he moved to and set up a printing shop and completed the first true book in the West produced by his movable printing press: The Bible, completed between 1455 -1456. Unfortunately, he lost his shop to a creditor. Gutenberg died at the age of seventy-one in the year 1468. Printing became one of the largest industries in the western world. It had an enormous impact on the intellectual society. New religious ideas would have never been able to spread with such speed and ease throughout Europe without the aid of printing press. The Bible commentaries, books of devotion, and sermons made up more than 50% of the publication printed and spread throughout Europe, not to mention all the political news. By the early 1950’s, there were more than 1,000 printers existing in Europe, each publishing between 8 to 10 million copies of religious and political books...
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...The Lindisfarne Gospels, the Book of Kells, and the Book of Durrow are all in a similar style and are rather consistent in the way they assimilate text and images. All of these were also created by hand in the 7th and 8th centuries while a printer created the Gutenberg Bible in the 1450s. While the Gutenberg Bible does have some elaborated decorated initials on pages, the relationship between the text and image is not as great as it is in the early manuscripts. The text is more identical and appears to follow a pattern throughout the bible. Although the Gutenberg Bible is very impressive, it doesn’t have the same uniqueness the others have. The printing press is far more efficient, but it also makes everything identical, unlike the others made individually by...
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...surfaces onto papers or similar kind of material into different ways. Printing press is used for printing many copies of a text on papers to form a book or similar kinds of reading material. Around 1446 several print masters were on the process creating effective technology of printing with movable metal type. The rapid cultural change in Europe fueled a growing need for the rapid and cheap production of written documents. A number of people had previously attempted to make a metal type movable printing press, but it was not until a method was invented for producing metal type in large quantities that printing with movable type became economically practicable. Johannes Gutenberg, the son of a noble family of Mainz, Germany was the first person to demonstrate the practicability of movable type printing machine. Gutenberg, who was a stonecutter and goldsmith, invented an alloy of lead, tin and antinomy that would melt at low temperature, cast well in the die, and is durable in the press (Kreis, 2011). As long as the metal in which they were cast did not wear down, it was possible to use and reuse the separate pieces of type, simply by arranging them in the desired order. The innovation of type from an alloy was durable and produced high quality printed books and was suitable for printing than the clay, wooden or bronze types which were already invented in East Asia. The mirror image of each letter, rather than entire words or sentences was carved in relief on a small block. Each letter...
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...Press and how it shaped our modern world To center a line in Microsoft Word, select Format | Paragraph from the main toolbar, and then on the Indents and Spacing tab beside the word Alignment choose Center from the drop-down list. Introduction to the Humanities Professor You can insert the date in Microsoft Word by selecting Insert | Date and Time… from the main toolbar and selecting a style. Date 05/14/2011 Prior to 1440 everything read in Europe was copied by hand or copied from wooden blocks carved by hand. This was very expensive and time consuming. The only people who were literate were those of the church and a small percentage of nobility. That all changed with Johanes Gutenber’s creation of the printing press. Johann Gutenberg managed to bring together technologies known for centuries before him, adding the idea for movable metal type. This led to the mass production of books, being them more available to the general public. The invention of the printing press helped ideas spread quickly making things easier for the reform of the Church and the development of modern sciences. "Renaissance" means "rebirth" in French and stands for the cultural, intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the fourteenth century and lasted through the sixteenth century. However, the Renaissance was not the first rebirth of learning during the Middle Ages since many beautiful cathedrals had previously been built using classical styles: universities such as...
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...The life of Johannes Gutenberg and his invention of the movable type printing press has had an intensive impact on our society. Although he lived over half a millennium ago, we have seen his actions of bringing literacy to the public increase exponentially in influence over the years. In order to truly appreciate and understand his actions and the sacrifices he made to pursue this dream, one must first understand the circumstances of the incredible journey which he experienced between his birth and death. Gutenberg was born in the year 1398 in the town of Mainz, Germany. As he grew, his family was generally well off and could afford certain luxuries which other families could not. In fact, his parents were patricians of Mainz. This meant that...
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...this, traditional story-telling was changed forever, now being able to read aloud from a manuscript. The invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg has often been attributed to the origin of mass communication in the western hemisphere. With it, mass audiences were able to be reached through only one source. However, long before the Gutenberg press, Chinese used ink, block letters and movable clay as a form of writing, and this can be considered the first form of mass communication. Although Europe’s advancement in printing technology came much later than in China, their advancements were much more significant due to a less complex alphabet than the one used by the Chinese. If not for the refinement of paper, the printing press would not have been able to have been created. The Chinese had developed the first type of paper in the early years of 100 A.D. and were composed of rags and other scrap things such as bamboo. This technology was eventually passed on to the Arab section of the world by Chinese prisoners. Ironically, this technology was much the same even in the 1200’s when Europe began to develop its own form of paper. In the early 1400’s Europe experienced a culture shift and hunger for knowledge, which in turn resulted in the need for more cheaply produced written products. This is when Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith from a small mining town in Germany, borrowed money to develop a technology to accommodate to this need. He...
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...exacting work. First, the type is needed, which are metal blocks with raised letters, numbers, and punctuation marks on one end. This type is then arranged to spell out the document, smeared with ink, and lowered by the frame onto the paper by means of a large and adjustable screw, supported by a cross beam (Hook, 2009, p. 46). The press is, again, hardly an impressive-looking feat of engineering. Essentially, it looks like what is believed to have inspired its creation, a wine press, in that a simple apparatus, manipulated by hand, creates sufficient pressure to create an imprint of the ink onto the paper. This basic model, however, would serve as a template for many years. In time, technology would advance the invention to stages Gutenberg could not have imagined, as metals and electrical advancements...
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...Our current culture has been influenced by so many different people and cultures. Some of the cultures that have made a huge impact on our culture today was the Roman, Greek, and European cultures. Most recently in the class, we have talked about the impact that the Protestant Reformation had on America. The Protestant Reformation laid the foundation for the freedoms and rights that we have been given by our Constitution. Out of the Reformation, we have some people that made a life-lasting impact on culture; Martin Luther, Johannes Guttenberg, Christopher Columbus, and Nicolaus Copernicus. Although they all left a mark on our culture today, the one that had the greatest influence was Johannes Gutenberg. Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing...
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