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What year was the Gutenburg Bible printed in Mainz Germany?
The Bible was printed at Mainz, Germany by Johannes Gutenberg from 1452 -1455.
How many seconds of yesterday have passed since Johann Gutenburg's printing press?
500,546,234,123,673,246,634 seconds exactly. Or if you will, we can state it as 5 nights with your mom Oh!
Why was f used for s in old fashioned printing?
A good question. It is often seen in old fashioned printing that where an s is meant to go, it is replaced by what appears to be an f. Indeed it can be still seen today in logotypes that have stood the test of time, such as Jagermeister liquor. The answer can be found not in the early printing industry, but what came before it. Before the printing press was invented, by the famous Gutenburg, all writing was done by hand. Scribes were among the most heavily employed artisans of that period. This heavy employment attracted people to take up this job, creating in turn much competition. This competition lead on to force scribes to make their scripts incredible ornate, competing with one another for jobs by proving their script looked flasher than the other's (essentially the beginning of Graphic Design). This lead to scribes being very critical about the visual impact of the letters, and so in cases where two s' were needed, it was deemed unsightly to have two normal ones, as this took up a disproportionate amount of space. So scribes used a elongated s that had little 'curve' in it, often making it both a descender and ascender. This gave it a very close look to an f. It just so happened that it was around this time that the printing press was rediscovered, after Gutenburg had hidden his secret for fear of the Inquisition. Printing became widespread, and was used for many of the scribe's most mundane and regular jobs. The printers adopted the most popular scripts of the time, as these were easily read by the people of the day. This included the s that was disgused as an f. So mostly, what seems to be an f in the place of an s, is actually an s, but not how we write it today. Of course, there ARE examples of prints where the printer, who were typically not too well educated, used an f instead. It was possibly for this reason that over time this peculiar s was dropped from common use, and the general public decided that clarity was more important than equal letter weighting.
Did Elizabeth the first translate The Bible?
Nope. Her father Henry VIII did and her successor James I did. But she didn't.A different response:It is difficult to say who first translated the Bible from the original languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, but it certainly was not Elizabeth I, Henry VIII or King James. The only influence any of those English monarchs had was to sponsor versions(not translations) to be made from the Latin Vulgate into the contemporary English of their time.Many hundreds of years earlier, the Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Koine Greek in the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BCE. That translation is known as the Septuagint.Portions of the Christian Scriptures, originally written in Greek, were translated into Latin sometime after the 1st Century, and were collective known as the Old Latin Bible, or Vetus Latina. St. Jerome (382 - 405) is credited with assembling the Latin Vulgate Bible. That continued to be the commonly used Bible until the Protestant Reformation. The development of the printing press in the 15th century also had a significant impact, when the Bible began to be translated into European languages, beginning with the Gutenburg Bible.
What was Johannes Gutenburg?
Johannes Gutenburg is a person who lived in the 1400's
What is gutenburg discontinuity?
The zone of discontinuity in the density between mantle and core is known as gutenburg discontinuity.
When did Johannes gutenburg die?
Johannes Gutenburg died in 1458 on February 3. He died in Mainz, Germany.
What is the significance of Johannes gutenburg?
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When was Johann Gutenburg born?
1389
Where was the gutenburg bible printed?
Germany
Johannes gutenburg brothers and sisters?
sistersname
What did Johaness Gutenburg invent?
printing press
Why was Johann gutenburg famous?
He invented the letterpress
Who perfected the moveable type?
Johannes Gutenburg
What is the language spoken by Gutenburg?
he spoke German
Who inevented the printing press?
Jonannes Gutenburg
