Johannes Gutenberg and the Invention of the Printing Press Essay

Johannes Gutenberg and the Invention of the Printing Press Between the 13th and 16th centuries we nooky see the rise of a print-dominated society a society which moved away from the church buildings monopoly of information that existed until that time. There were many social, economic and political changes. It was not because of the notion 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 idea for movable metal type. This take to the mass production of books, being them more available to the general public. The invention of the printing press helped ideas spread quickly making things easier for the reform of the Church and the maturation of modern sciences.INDEXIntroduction...................................................................... 5The life of Johannes Gutenberg ................................... ........... 7 The development of print technology .................................... 8The invention .................................................................... 9The printing press and the Church .................................................... 11Gutenbergs Bible ............................................................. 12The print and the developing of culture.................................. 13Final comment ................................................................. 16Bibliography .................................................................... 17IntroductionRenaissance means rebirth in French and stands for the cultural, intellectual 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 phratry 2014.<a href=http//www.gutenberg digital.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.