Movable type

and all the revolution made during the Renaissance. Johannes Gutenberg is the father of the printing press. Some argue that he isn't because the idea; for example, the movable type was invented long before Johannes Gutenberg’s invention. According to Wei Li in the article “the invention of movable type” (Sept 21, 2002); the movable type was invented in China by a man name Bi, Sheng during the former Song Dynasty, which happened in the year 960-1127 BCE. This was about 400 years before the Gutenberg’s

scribes, if the scribe messed up, they had to start all over again. “Gutenberg's movable type involved metal letters at the end of a metal shaft that could be produced in quantity, arranged, and moved around so that mistakes could be corrected easily, and the type could economically be reused for the next project. Both of the earlier methods of reproduction were expensive and time-consuming. The combination of movable type, oil-based inks, and a workable press revolutionized European bookmaking and spread

Imagine if you only read one or two books in your lifetime. This was the case in the 1400s. When there were only thirty thousand books throughout Europe. During the Middle Ages, before the printing press, bookmarking was slow because the only methods of making books were woodblock printing and writing by hand. Books were expensive and rare. Gutenberg's father was quite wealthy and he bought Johanne Gutenberg books and he read them quickly. Even though his father could afford more books, there were

Visual communication is the interaction of meanings and thoughts through visual stimuli. Usually in 2D visual communication covers a wide range of genres including art, ideograms, typography, photography, illustration, graphic design and many others. In this essay I will try to evidence the natural evolution of readability and legibility in visual communication and how it’s progression reached its pinnacle before the beginning of post-modernism. I will look as far back as the first known instances

The communication of information, from religious to secular, and from scholarly to popular, has been important to the development of civilization. From hand writing the Bible, to being able to print it in less than a minute, the printing press has truly changed the world. We thank China for the first production of the printing press in the 6th century AD. The printing press has allowed for more ideas to be shared, more widespread knowledge, and entertainment to be expressed. This is definitely

In 1452 Johannes Gutenberg invented a machine that would change the entire course of history: the printing press. If not for Gutenberg’s refinement of the movable type printing press using combined technologies from the Middle East and China, neither the Renaissance in Europe nor the Reformation of the Catholic Church would have occured. Previously, books were hand-made by religious scribes. However with the new ease of printing books, Gutenberg’s machine brought on widespread social, political,

Johannes Gutenberg was a German inventor who created a movable typing machine called the printing press. He worked for a very long time to be able to type things wherever you wanted and make it very popular. The printing press was invented in order for people to type things easily but Gutenberg did not know that it would change the world. The press led to many great books and other things. Johannes Gutenberg was born in 1395 in Mainz, Germany. He was born into a merchant family and worked as an

resulted in 200 million books being produced by 1600 CE (A). Before this time period books were only accessible to the wealthy elite, but with the help of the printing press, ideas, such as, Protestantism, caught like fire. The printing press with movable type allowed for many different books to be created. Gutenberg’s printing press helped to spread Protestantism more than it did the Age of Exploration, because of the Church’s corruption that Martin Luther raised awareness through the use of the press

His invention contributed to the surges in learning for centuries to come, making boundless advances during the Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution periods. Joahannes Gutenburg, a German artisan, created the first movable type printing press. With this new invention the painstakingly long process of handwriting manuscripts became dated and unnecessary for most

spread throughout the world. According to author Fran Rees, Gutenberg was pleased of his remarkable printing press. He spend nearly twenty years of his life and all of his money perfecting his printing press. Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press which created a major impact on western culture, civilization and modern, everyday life (www.biographyonline.net). Johannes Gutenberg was born in the late 1390s in Mainz, Germany. He was a merchant, German Blacksmith, and entrepreneur