The Gutenberg Revolution - Hardcover

Man, John

 
9780747245049: The Gutenberg Revolution
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0747245045 ISBN 13: 9780747245049
Verlag: Headline Review, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

In 1450, all western Europe's books were handcopied and amounted to no more than a single modern library. By 1500 they were printed and numbered in their millions. Printing made possible the development of modern science and literature, and the political shift from statelets to nations. It brought about the biggest changes in human culture since the invention of the alphabet itself.

The man responsible was Johann Gutenberg, born in 1400 in Mainz, Germany. John Man explains how this technical genius, whose research into printing was funded by wealthy sponsors, struggled against a background of plague, religious upheaval and legal battles to bring his remarkable invention to light. Once the secret of printing got out, the world would never be the same again.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia. His most recent books are GOBI: TRACKING THE DESERT and THE ATLAS OF THE YEAR 1000. He also wrote THE ATLAS OF D-DAY. He devised and presented the BBC Radio 4 series 'Survivors'.

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Verlag
Headline Review
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0747245045
ISBN 13 
9780747245049
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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