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    Imagine if you owed someone hundreds of items, while working on an important project, what would you do? Johannes Gutenberg decided if he did nothing, his life would be wasted away, so he went straight to work. Johannes Gutenberg was born in Mainz, France. Gutenberg had many crazy (QA) things happen in his young life, including being exiled to another country! He worked (SV.) hard as a young man, (W-W) which allowed him to become the man he is known for today. Gutenberg also worked on many projects

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    Johannes Brahms was a German Composer, Pianist and conductor of the 19th century or the Romantic period. He was one of the 3 B's or the Big three: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Johannes was a very self-critic man he burned many of his pieces before he could get anyone's opinion on them and he burned all of his compositions that he wrote before the age of 19. Johannes Brahms was born on Tuesday 7th may 1833, in the city of Hamburg the birthplace also of Mendelssohn. Johann Brahms was himself a musician

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    Johannes Brahms was a German Composer, Pianist and conductor of the 19th century or the Romantic period. He was one of the 3 B?s or the Big three: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Johannes was a very self-critic man he burned many of his pieces before he could get anyone?s opinion on them and he burned all of his compositions that he wrote before the age of 19. Johannes Brahms was born on Tuesday 7th may 1833, in the city of Hamburg the birthplace also of Mendelssohn. Johann Brahms was himself a musician

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    Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer and mathematician who lived between 1671-1630. Kepler was a Copernican and initially believed that planets should follow perfectly circular orbits (“Johan Kepler” 1). During this time period, Ptolemy’s geocentric theory of the solar system was accepted. Ptolemy’s theory stated that Earth is at the center of the universe and stationary; closest to Earth is the Moon, and beyond it, expanding towards the outside, are Mercury, Venus, and the Sun in a straight line

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    Very little is known about Johannes Vermeer. He was exclusively devoted to the arts. Due to his elusiveness, Thore Burger named him “The Sphinx of Delft” (“Biography of”). Vermeer was an artist during the Dutch Golden Age, a period of wealth for the Netherlands. Many outbreaks of the plague had come and gone, but things were finally returning to what they were like before it began. Trade flourished through the East India Company. The arts became popular, and artists were gaining wealth and

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    Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler is now remembered for discovering the three laws of planetary motion, and writing about them in books that were published in 1609 and 1619. He also did important work in optics, discovered two new regular polyhedra, gave the first mathematical treatment of close packing of equal spheres, gave the first proof of how logarithms worked, and devised a method of finding the volumes of solids of revolution. This can be seen as contributing

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    Yeo Heuk Hung Maximillan Doctor Thomas Manhart MHO Essay 31 August 2014 Essay Question: What was an influence for Brahms' Composition? Examine. Johannes Brahms was one of the 19th century's greatest composers and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic era. Brahms, together with Ludwig Van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach, was considered one of the “Three B’s” of German music. This shows Brahms’ significance in German music, as he is one of the ‘symbols’ of German music. Not only did Brahms

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    While each of these men certainly have a list of accomplishments accredited to them, it is my belief that Johannes Guternberg rose above and has had the most influence on Western culture. His invention of the printing press was revolutionary because it allowed the ideals and manuscripts of the past and present to become readily available to the common man. His invention contributed to the surges in learning for centuries to come, making boundless advances during the Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment

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    Johannes Gutenburg was a German inventor that was born in Mainz, Germany in 1395. Although there were multiple innovations that deeply impacted multiple things that are still in use today, one of the most important ones was the printing press. Gutenburg's invention was one of the critical factors in the Renaissance. The printing press was proposed to the West in the Holy Roman Empire around 1440. It not only had a huge influence on the way citizens spent their daily lives, but also helped broaden

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    Johannes Gutenberg, born 1395 A.D. in Mainz, Germany, was said to have apprenticed as a goldsmith, which prompted him to invent the printing press. Gutenberg began to trifle with metal alloys and minerals to create a lightweight metal that could be poured into a detailed cast and still be strong enough to last thousands of impressions. Gutenberg’s invention allowed for a simpler, faster process, and offered longer lasting materials. The instant effect of the moveable type printing press was influential

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