[PDF] The Justification Of Johann Gutenberg eBook

Author : Blake Morrison
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2010-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385672187

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Around 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.

Author : Blake Morrison
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2003-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780060935719

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Blake Morrison has woven a stunning novel around the few facts known about the life and work of Johann Gensfleisch (aka Gutenberg), master printer, charmer, con man, and visionary -- the man who invented "artificial writing" and printed the Gutenberg Bible, putting thousands of monks out of work. In this dazzling debut novel, Morrison gives Gutenberg's final testament: a justification and apologia he dictated, ironically, to one of the young scribes made obsolete by his invention of movable metal type. Through the eyes of the aging narrator, we see the Middle Ages in a strange new light and witness a moment of cultural transition as dramatic as the communications revolution of today.

Author : Kay Melchisedech Olson
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736896443

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Tells the story of Johann Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press. Written in graphic-novel format.

Author : Stephen Feinstein
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781598450774

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Describes the life and career of Johannes Gutenberg, including the history of written text before his invention of the movable type press, and the advancements in printing made after his death.

Author : Sue Vander Hook
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 160453916X

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This 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.

Author : Diana Childress
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761340246

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Can 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.