Happy Birthday to the printing press

Happy birthday to the printing press ... it was this week 558 years ago that the first Gutenberg bible returned from the binders. It may not have actually been the first book printed with moveable type, (the Chinese had developed moveable type 400 years prior and discarded the technology) but it was the first book printed with movable type in Europe and it spread rapidly, influencing, perhaps even catalysing, three major intellectual revolutions: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Modern Science.

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