gutenberg, johann

Recounts the story of the German printer credited with the invention of printing with movable type.

Simple text and illustrations look at the life of Johannes Gutenberg, the fifteenth century German man who invented the printing press.

Presents the life of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor who changed how books were printed.

". . . historian Fr?d?ric Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of the first great 'media revolution' in the West: Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in the mid fifteenth century. In great detail and with a wealth of historical evidence . . . charts the developments in manuscript culture in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and shows how the steadily increasing need for written documents initiated the processes of change which culminated with Gutenberg."--Provided by publisher.

The Gutenberg Bible resulted in a transformation in the distribution of knowledge and sparked incredible growth in literacy. Readers will find out how Gutenberg's printing press worked and what helped inspire it, and the Gutenberg Bible's layout and decoration are discussed. Includes images of the pages from the book itself.

Explores the life of Johann Gutenberg and his invention of the movable-type printing press.

An illustrated biography of Johannes Gutenberg, the man who invented the printing press in the town of Mainz, Germany, in the 1400s.

Presents the story of Johhannes Gutenberg, the first European to produce a printing press.

Examines the life and accomplishments of Johannes Gutenberg, the fifteenth-century German man who invented the printing press.

Having reluctantly accompanied his academic mother and pesky younger sister to Oxford, twelve-year-old Blake Winters is at loose ends until he stumbles across an ancient and magical book, secretly brought to England in 1453 by Gutenberg's mute apprentice to save it from evil forces, and which now draws Blake into a dangerous and life-threatening quest.