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Posted: 07 May 2022

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Reconstruction of the Gutenberg press and workshop in the
Gutenberg Museum, Mainz
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Germany ~ Memories of a Nation
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. . . . In 1452 Johannes Gutenberg began selling Bibles from his new printing press, just when the development of rag processing was making paper more readily available. By the time Leonardo became an apprentice in Florence, Gutenberg’s technology had crossed the Alps into Italy. Alberti marveled in 1466 about “the German inventor who has made it possible, by certain pressing down of characters, to have more than two hundred volumes written out in a hundred days from the original, with the labor of no more than three men. A goldsmith from Guttenberg’s hometown of Mainz named Johannes de Spira moved to Venice and started Italy’s first major commercial publishing house in 1469, it printed many of the classics, starting with Cicero’s letters and Pliny’ encyclopedic ‘Natural History,’ which Leonardo bought. By 1471 there were printing shops also in Milan, Florence, Naples, Bologna, Ferrara, Padua, and Genoa. Venice became the center of Europe’s publishing industry, and by the time Leonardo visited in 1500, there were close to a hundred printing houses there, and two million volumes had come off their presses. Leonardo thus was able to become the first major European thinker to acquire a serious knowledge of science without being formally schooled in Latin or Greek. ` ~ Page 172

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