Johann Gutenberg

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (circa 1398 – 3 Februar, 1468), a German metal-warker an inventor that's weel-kent for his contreibutions ti the technology o prentin in the 1450s, sic as a type metal alloy an ile-based inks, a mould for castin type accurate, an a new kind o prentin press foondit on presses uised in wine-makkin. Tradeition credits him wi inventin muivable type in Europe, a betterment o the block prentin uised there afore. By jyning thir elements intil a production seistem, he stairtit the swith prentin o written materials an an information explosion in Renaissance Europe.

There's monie statues o Gutenberg in Germany, ane o the mair kenspeckle bein a wark bi Thorvaldsen, in Mainz, that is hame tae the Gutenberg Museum forby.

The Gutenberg Galaxy an Project Gutenberg commemorates Gutenberg's name.

 Sib airticles 
 Prentin
 Typographie
 Incunabulum
 Francysk Skaryna
 William Caxton
 World Almanac's Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium

 Fremmit airtins 
 English Hamepage o the Gutenberg-Museum Mainz / Germany
 Life and work of Johannes Gutenberg
 BL.uk  - 'Diamond Sutra' (warld’s auldest survivin full dated printed beuk, circa AD 868)
 Silk-Road.com - 'Printing' (historical owerview o printin)
 UTexas.edu  - 'The Digital Gutenberg Project' (the Gutenberg Bible in 1,300 digital eimages, ilka page o the Varsity o Texas copy)
 HistoireetGeographie.free.fr  - 'Biographie de Johannes Gutenberg, inventeur de l'Imprimerie' (a French biography of Gutenberg)


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