Answer these questions.
1. What was Johannes Gutenberg's profession?
2. In which language was he printing an edition of the Bible?
3. Which voice said, "The age of ignorance will be at an end': the first, the second or the
third
4. What was the message of the second voice?
5. What was the result of Gutenberg's choice to continue printing?
6. What is Gutenberg remembered as today?
7. What are the three possibilities that printing presented, as told to Gutenberg by the
voices?
8 What do you think the voices really were?
9. Write a brief biography of Gutenberg using information from books and the internet
Answers
Answer:
1. inventor
2. Latin Vulgate
other in explanation
Explanation:
1. Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (/ˈɡuːtənbɜːrɡ/; c. 1400 – February 3, 1468) was a German goldsmith, inventor, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with his mechanical movable-type printing press.
2. It is an edition of the Latin Vulgate printed in the 1450s by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, in present-day Germany. Forty-nine copies (or substantial portions of copies) have survived. They are thought to be among the world's most valuable books, although no complete copy has been sold since 1978.
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4. The second voice which Gutenberg heard was a bit stern and strong but not so unpleasant. He spoke that undoubtedly printed books would cheap and plentiful yet all would not be good. With the good books vulgar and viles would also be printed and it would ruin the children.
5. It allowed him for running his printing press and creates another press. He settled in his hometown named Mainz where he had built his printing press as well as continues his printing work.
6. he is remembered for today for his great inventions like; German inventor Johannes Gutenberg developed a method of printing from movable type. He invented printing press in l440. ...