September 2020
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
9h 53m
English
1400–1468
Johannes Gutenberg ushered in an age of mass literacy and learning in the 15th century through his invention of a printing press that used metal movable type. This revolutionary innovation marked the democratization of knowledge, enabling information to be disseminated more quickly and cheaply to a broader readership.
The he son of a merchant, Johannes Gutenberg was born in the German city of Mainz around 1400 and trained as a goldsmith. By 1430, his family had fallen foul of disputes between commercial factions in Mainz and relocated to Strasbourg. Here, Gutenberg began to develop ...
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