It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor ...

The first complete book Gutenberg printed was the Bible, which he ran off his Mainz, Germany press around 1456. Historians believe Gutenberg printed about 200 copies of the two-volume Bible in the ...

The book was printed about 1455 by Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of movable type. For insurance purposes, the Bible is valued at $1 million but it is almost irreplaceable. The bindings of the ...

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Johann Gutenberg probably finished his first printing in 1455, in Mainz, Germany. Almost 600 years later, just 49 copies of the Gutenberg Bible are still in existence, and less than half of those ...

. But the most important part of his invention was actually moveable type. Before Gutenberg, the closest Europe had to printing was the woodblock. The woodblock was a piece of wood with all the ...

A few machines have truly changed the world, such as the wheel, steam engines, or the printing press. Maybe 3D printers will be on that list one day too. But for today, you can use your 3D printer ...

Peter Schöffer — collaborated to print 180 copies, in Latin, of what is now known as the Gutenberg Bible.Credit: Alamy In the aftermath of my mother’s death a few years ago, during the onset ...

1 of 20 Text detail from a Gutenberg Bible printed in 1455 Van Kampen Collection, on display at the Holy Land Experience, Orlando, Florida When I visit the Museum of the Bible a day before its ...

An assortment of physical media sits organized on shelves inside inside the Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility at IU ...