In 1450, all books in Europe were handmade and numbered only in the few thousands. By 1500, they were printed and numbered in the millions. One man's invention - that of Johannes Gutenberg - had caused a revolution. Printing with movable type was a discovery waiting to happen. Born in 1400 in Mainz, Germany, Gutenberg struggled amidst plagues and religious upheavals to bring his remarkable invention to light. His story is filled with paradoxes: his ambition was to reunite all of Christendom, but his invention shattered it. His goal was to make a fortune, yet he was unjustly deprived of the fruits of his life's work. Nevertheless, history remembers him as a visionary; his discovery marks the beginning of the modern world.
Pages: 304, Dimensions: 12.7x12.7cm
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- Gutenberg
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- Technology
- Language
- English
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- Soft
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- ISBN-13
- 9780553819663
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