Inventors & Engineers · Industrial
Gutenberg
How a Mainz goldsmith combined movable metal type, the hand mould, oil-based ink and a screw press around 1450, the 42-line Bible, his bankruptcy, and the printing revolution that powered the Reformation and science.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Medieval Europe. Next: The Reformation; Scientific Revolution. Sources: John Man, *The Gutenberg Revolution* (2002); Elizabeth Eisenstein, *The Printing Press as an Agent of Change* (1979); Jeremiah Dittmar, *QJE* (2011).Next: 1. The system