This is the book known today as the Gutenberg Bible. Gutenberg may have begun developing a new printing technology as early as the 1430s, and completion of the Bible demonstrated the viability of a ...
Gutenberg designed a methodical and reliable printing press that allowed for the mass production of written material. The first mass-produced book was of course The Gutenberg Bible, printed in ...
Jan Hus of Bohemia spread Wycliffe’s ideas through a published paper. He refused to recant his stated beliefs and was burned at the stake. In 1456, Johannes Gutenberg printed the first Bible in Europe ...