Johannes Gutenberg’s life is shrouded in mystery and conjecture. He was born in Mainz, an affluent city in the lush German Rhineland, on the western side of the Holy Roman Empire. Estimates for his ...

A cautionary tale from historian Niall Ferguson. To understand the current era, Ferguson believes we need to look more at what happened after Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press. Like the ...

Nearly 600 years ago in Strasbourg, Germany, an invention that revolutionized book production was created and is now widely considered the best invention of the last 1,000 years. Humans have advanced ...

"John Mustain wrote this catalogue based on the exhibitions he curated in Stanford University's Green Library during the academic year 2011-2012, Monuments of Printing: Gutenberg through the ...

Famous for inventing the first printing press in Germany around 1440, Johannes Gutenberg's revolutionary accomplishment inspired Anthony King and Scott Brown centuries later to create "Gutenberg! The ...