In what country was the first book printed?

Answer 1

Well, in our western world, we would acknowledge this to have happened in Germany.

The truth is that the Chinese did it 2000 years before.

Answer 2

The earliest dated printed book known is the "Diamond Sutra", printed in China in 868 CE. However, it is suspected that book printing may have occurred long before this date. In 1041, movable clay type was first invented in China. Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press with replaceable wooden or metal letters in 1436 (completed by 1440).

The bible in Gutenberg that everyone is referring to is the first book to be mass produced.

Answer 3

The printing press is a mechanical printing device for making copies of identical text on multiple sheets of paper. Movable type, which allowed individual characters to be arranged to form words, was invented in China by Bi Sheng between 1041 to 1048. The use of movable type to mass produce printed works was popularized by a German goldsmith and eventual printer, Johannes Gutenberg, in the 1440s. While there are several local claims for the invention of the printing press in other parts of Europe, including Laurens Janszoon Coster in the Netherlands and Panfilo Castaldi in Italy, Gutenberg is credited by most scholars with its initial invention.

Answer 4

Gutenberg invented the printing press around 1500 and I'm pretty sure he's from Germany. I'm just assuming that is where the first book would have been printed.

Answer 5

Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1450's, and the first book to ever be printed was a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany. Gutenberg’s Bibles were surprisingly beautiful, as each leaf Gutenberg printed was later colorfully hand-illuminated. Born as “Johann Gensfleisch” (John Gooseflesh), he preferred to be known as “Johann Gutenberg” (John Beautiful Mountain). Ironically, though he had created what many believe to be the most important invention in history, Gutenberg was a victim of unscrupulous business associates who took control of his business and left him in poverty. Nevertheless, the invention of the movable-type printing press meant that Bibles and books could finally be effectively produced in large quantities in a short period of time. This was essential to the success of the Reformation.

First English book ever printed

The first book which Caxton produced in the Low Countries was The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy, translated by himself from the French original of Raoul Lefèvre. He had begun the translation in 1469, taken it further at the behest of Margaret of York, the Duchess of Burgundy, continued the work in Ghent, and completed it in Cologne on 9 September 1471. This was the first book ever to be printed in English

Answer 6

The Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed with movable type. Is that what you were looking for? The Syrians were making papyrus books for a long time before that.

Answer 7

China was the first nation to invent the printing press, despite what you may hear otherwise. Gutenberg of Germany invented movable type.

Answer 8

The book of Genesis on you Bible was finish on 1513 before comon era, well i will also say that the Bible was the first book ever printed before any other.

Answer 9

since printing press is invented by china, they will be the first to print book.

Answer 10

It was a Bible printed in Germany by a man called Guttenburg.

Answer 11

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