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Journey back to 1440 with a detailed, immersive look into Johannes Gutenberg's revolutionary invention: the printing press. Discover how this groundbreaking ...
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Discover the incredible story of Johannes Gutenberg and his revolutionary invention, the printing press, in our latest video! Learn how this groundbreaking t...
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In this insightful video, we explore the fascinating story of Johannes Gutenberg and his revolutionary invention, the printing press. Learn how this groundbr...
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- A Global News Network Was Launched
- The Renaissance Kicked Into High Gear
- Martin Luther Becomes The First Best-Selling Author
- Printing Powers The Scientific Revolution
- Fringe Voices Get A Platform
- From Public Opinion to Popular Revolution
- Machines ‘Steal Jobs’ from Workers
Gutenberg didn’t live to see the immense impact of his invention. His greatest accomplishment was the first print run of the Biblein Latin, which took three years to print around 200 copies, a miraculously speedy achievement in the day of hand-copied manuscripts. But as historian Ada Palmer explains, Gutenberg’s invention wasn’t profitable until th...
The Italian Renaissancebegan nearly a century before Gutenberg invented his printing press when 14th-century political leaders in Italian city-states like Rome and Florence set out to revive the Ancient Roman educational system that had produced giants like Caesar, Cicero and Seneca. One of the chief projects of the early Renaissance was to find lo...
There’s a famous quote attributed to German religious reformer Martin Lutherthat sums up the role of the printing press in the Protestant Reformation: “Printing is the ultimate gift of God and the greatest one.” Luther wasn’t the first theologian to question the Church, but he was the first to widely publish his message. Other “heretics” saw their ...
The English philosopher Francis Bacon, who’s credited with developing the scientific method, wrote in 1620 that the three inventions that forever changed the world were gunpowder, the nautical compass and the printing press. For millennia, science was a largely solitary pursuit. Great mathematicians and natural philosophers were separated by geogra...
“Whenever a new information technology comes along, and this includes the printing press, among the very first groups to be ‘loud’ in it are the people who were silenced in the earlier system, which means radical voices,” says Palmer. It takes effort to adopt a new information technology, whether it’s the ham radio, an internet bulletin board, or I...
During the Enlightenment era, philosophers like John Locke, Voltaireand Jean-Jacques Rousseau were widely read among an increasingly literate populace. Their elevation of critical reasoning above custom and tradition encouraged people to question religious authority and prize personal liberty. Increasing democratization of knowledge in the Enlighte...
The Industrial Revolutiondidn’t get into full swing in Europe until the mid-18th century, but you can make the argument that the printing press introduced the world to the idea of machines “stealing jobs” from workers. Before Gutenberg’s paradigm-shifting invention, scribes were in high demand. Bookmakers would employ dozens of trained artisans to ...
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Jul 26, 2022 · Stephen Fry takes a look inside the story of Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the world's first printing press in the 15th century, and an exploration of how and why the machine was invented.
Jul 18, 2022 · The printing press, credited to the German inventor and printer Johannes Gutenberg (l. c. 1398-1468) in the 1450s, became the single most important factor in the success of the Protestant Reformation by providing the means for widespread dissemination of the “new teachings” and encouraging independent thought on subjects previously rigidly ...
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Mar 13, 2017 · The Gutenberg printing press - invented in the 1440s by Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith from Mainz in Germany - is widely considered to be one of humanity's defining inventions.