how did johannes gutenberg's invention of the printing press change western civililation?

Question

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Answer 1

The Renaissance witnessed the development of printing, which made an immediate impact on European intellectual life and thought. Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz played an important role in bringing the process of printing with movable type to completion.

By 1500, there were more than a thousand printers in Europe, who collectively had published almost forty thousand titles.

The printing of books encouraged the development of scholarly research and the desire to attain knowledge. Printing also stimulated the development of an ever expanding lay reading public, a development that had an enormous impact on European society. Printing allowed European civilization to compete for the first time with the civilization to China.

Answer 2

Johannes Gutenberg Inventions

Answer 3

The printing press is a mechanical printing device for making copies of identical text on multiple sheets of paper. It was invented in Germany by the goldsmith and printer Johannes Gutenberg in the 1440s.
In medieval Europe, books were first copied mainly in monasteries, or (from the 13th century) in commercial scriptoria, where scribes wrote them out by hand. Books were therefore a scarce resource.
While it might take a year or more to hand copy a Bible, with the Gutenberg press it was possible to create several hundred copies a year.
The discovery and establishment of the printing of books with movable type marks a paradigm shift in the way information was transferred in Europe. The impact of printing is comparable to the development of writing, and the invention of the alphabet, as far as its effects on the society.
In general, knowledge came closer to the hands of the people, since printed books could be sold for a fraction of the cost of illuminated manuscripts. There were also more copies of each book available, so that more people could discuss them.

Answer 4

According to an old proverb: Necessity is the mother of invention. Though I'm not sure that's the answer you wanted. Certainly Gutenberg must have felt a need that his press filled. Does this count? Respectfully submitted, Adastra, the Wizzard of Jacksonville

Answer 5

Well before the printing press, all manuscripts were written by hand. It could take months or years to complete just one copy, so they were very expensive ( usually only royalty or the very wealthy could afford them) and not very many copies were around. Once the press was invented, prices dropped and more copies were available to more people thereby increasing the knowledge and information to the less wealthy. Actually the invention of the printing press WAS on the order of invention of the satellites and the wireless. Both enabled a far greater exchange of communications than was previously used.

Answer 6

You don't need to read John Milton to realize that books have a life almost like a man. They record, they entertain, and they inform, but they spread ideas, and that is perhaps their most important function.

It was easy to control the spread of ideas when books were laboriously copied by hand, but with the coming of the press, the "Banners," the stultifiers of ideas had a lot more difficulty in achieving their purposes. This was especially important with the coming the Reformation, and so the practice shifted from burning books, which still went on ignoring borders, to burning the people who read them. All in the name of the Prince of Peace and Love.

Both Milton's essay "On Censorship" and John Stuart Mill's great "On Liberty" are concerned with this idea of enterfering with ideas through law or custom. They should both be read periodically by every literate person

Books created and continue to pose serious problems for those who would control our minds. I give the example of the Muslims in recent times in their reaction to books.

Answer 7

Made books affordable for the growing middle class of the day. Previously they were boutique items exclusively for the rich. Important for the exchange of ideas. Ripped up the control of scholarship on the part of the church and the old political powers. Ideas that had been squelched for centuries could circulate more freely.

Made newspapers and cheap pamphlets possible. Both were important factors in political and social upheavals in the following centuries. Rabble rousing pamphlets were key in firing up the masses during the American, French and doubtlessly other revolutions. Electorates were informed of the threads of debate in government policies. Forever altered the political scene by introducing partisan influences over news reporting.

Answer 8

he sold first newspaper and it was that a newspaper one sheet,

Answer 9

please try to be real. compare it to the invention of global communication via satellite and internet.