Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words by John Man

Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words

John Man

312 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history science technology informative slow-paced
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A world forever changed... In 1450, all of western Europe's books were hand-copied and amounted to no more than are in a modern public library. By 1500, printed books numbered in the millions. Johann Gutenberg's invention of movable type ignited t...

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