Johannes Gutenberg and the Invention of the Printing Press Essay

Johannes Gutenberg and the Invention of the Printing Press Between the 13th and sixteenth centuries we can see the rise of a print-dominated ships company a society which moved away from the Churchs monopoly of information that existed until that time. There were many social, economic and semipolitical changes. It was non because of the printing press that those changes were brought about, but perhaps they could have not happened so fast without the print. Johann Gutenberg managed to bring together technologies known for centuries before him, adding the estimate for movable metal type. This led to the mass production of books, being them more(prenominal) available to the general public. The invention of the printing press helped ideas spread right away making things easier for the reform of the Church and the development of modern sciences.INDEX induction...................................................................... 5The life of Johannes Gutenberg .......... .................................... 7 The development of print technology .................................... 8The invention .................................................................... 9The printing press and the Church .................................................... 11Gutenbergs leger ............................................................. 12The print and the developing of culture.................................. 13Final comment ................................................................. 16Bibliography .................................................................... 17IntroductionRenaissance means rebirth in cut and stands for the cultural, senseual and economic changes that occu... ...14.(Frank Granger, Gutenberg--The Most Important Man of the Millennium <a href=http//teched.edtl.vt.edu/gcc/HTML/PrintingsPast/GutenbergBible.htmlhttp//teched.edtl.vt.edu/gcc/HTML/PrintingsPast/GutenbergBible.html</a), downloaded in folk 2014.<a href=h ttp//www.gutenbergdigital.de/,http//www.gutenbergdigital.de/,</a downloaded in September 2014.http/www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/story039, downloaded in September 2014.http/www.inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blJohannesGutenberg, downloaded in September 2014.http/www.historyguide.org/intellect/press, downloaded in September 2014.<a href=http//www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568362730/ref%3Ded%5Foe%5Fh/102-5739894-2995348,http//www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568362730/ref%3Ded%5Foe%5Fh/102-5739894-2995348,</a downloaded in October 2014.