A Gutenberg press replica at the Featherbed Alley Printshop Museum, in Bermuda.

There are many statues of Gutenberg in Germany, including the famous one by Bertel Thorvaldsen ( 1837 ) in Mainz, home to the eponymous Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and the Gutenberg Museum on the history of early printing.

Older part of the Gutenberg Museum in the Zum Römischen Kaiser house, Mainz

The Gutenberg Museum was originally laid out in two rooms at the Kurfürstliches Schloß ( Electoral Palace Mainz ), which also accommodated the city library.

Schrift Druck Buch im Gutenberg Museum.

* Gutenberg Museum website

Institutions which have copies on permanent display include the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, the British Library and the Library of Congress.

* Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany

* 1456 – The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.

Around 1427, the name zu Gutenberg, after the family house in Mainz, is documented to have been used for the first time.

When the question of satisfying the investors came up, Gutenberg is said to have promised to share a " secret ".

It was in Strasbourg in 1440 that Gutenberg is said to have perfected and unveiled the secret of printing based on his research, mysteriously entitled Kunst und Aventur ( art and enterprise ).

By this date, Gutenberg may have been familiar with intaglio printing ; it is claimed that he had worked on copper engravings with an artist known as the Master of Playing Cards.

It is not clear when Gutenberg conceived the Bible project, but for this he borrowed another 800 guilders from Fust, and work commenced in 1452.

Between 1450 and 1455, Gutenberg printed several texts, some of which remain unidentified ; his texts did not bear the printer's name or date, so attribution is possible only from typographical evidence and external references.

Setting each page would take, perhaps, half a day, and considering all the work in loading the press, inking the type, pulling the impressions, hanging up the sheets, distributing the type, etc., it is thought that the Gutenberg – Fust shop might have employed as many as 25 craftsmen.

The 1544 Greek edition formed the basis of the 1732 English translation by William Whiston, which achieved enormous popularity in the English-speaking world ( and which is currently available online for free download via Project Gutenberg ).

However, the first securely dated book by Dutch printers is from 1471, long after Gutenberg.

Perhaps the strongest evidence in favor of Gutenberg is therefore that Mainz has in its possession today a first-edition of Erasmus ' Lof der Zotheid ( English translation: The Praise of Folly ), which was written in Gouda, but printed in Mainz in 1511.

Project Gutenberg eBook, a partial version There is a complete version at http :// www. clausewitz. com / readings / OnWar1873 / TOC. htm.

Project Gutenberg ( PG ) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to " encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks ".

Project Gutenberg is also closely affiliated with Distributed Proofreaders, an Internet-based community for proofreading scanned texts.

Project Gutenberg is now hosted by ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Besides being copyright-free, the requirement for a Latin ( character set ) text version of the release has been a criterion of Michael Hart's since the founding of Project Gutenberg, as he believes this is the format most likely to be readable in the extended future.

Michael Hart said in 2004, " The mission of Project Gutenberg is simple: ' To encourage the creation and distribution of ebooks '".

Project Runeberg is an initiative patterned after Project Gutenberg that publishes freely available electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries.

Finally, the name is similar to " Gutenberg ".

For instance, it is commonly accepted now that the famous Gutenberg – Richter law decays more rapidly than a pure power-law tail because of a finite exponential cutoff in the upper tail.

*** More particularly following Lives and Comparisons ( D is Dryden translation ; G is Gutenberg ; P is Perseus Project ; L is LacusCurtius ):

Out of copyright, it is also available free for reading and download at Project Gutenberg and Google Books websites.

Around 1439, Gutenberg was involved in a financial misadventure making polished metal mirrors ( which were believed to capture holy light from religious relics ) for sale to pilgrims to Aachen: in 1439 the city was planning to exhibit its collection of relics from Emperor Charlemagne but the event was delayed by one year due to a severe flood and the capital already spent could not be repaid.

Martin Luther's 95 Theses were printed and circulated widely ; subsequently he issued broadsheets outlining his anti-indulgences position ( certificates of indulgences were one of the first items Gutenberg had printed ).

: The notion of one art for the ' cultural ,' i. e., the favored few in any given society and of another subart for the ' uncultured ,' i. e., an excluded majority as deficient in Gutenberg skills as they are untutored in ' taste ,' in fact represents the last survival in mass industrial societies ( capitalist, socialist, communist — it makes no difference in this regard ) of an invidious distinction proper only to a class-structured community.

Items include a replica Gutenberg press ( on loan from The Tudors TV series ) and an original 1916 Proclamation ( on loan until 2016 ) along with a machine ( Wharfedale ) similar to the one it was printed on.

The public library of Saint-Omer holds, in its rare books section, one of the three French copies of the 42-line Gutenberg Bible, originally from the library of the abbey of St Bertin.

* Project Gutenberg 36, 000 ( June 2011 ) books all at one site and growing daily.

*, two-volume unabridged version, published by Longmans & Green in 1899, and abridged to one volume in 1902 ; unabridged two volume version to be republished by St. Augustine's Press in 2008, ISBN 1-58731-700-1-also available at the Gutenberg Project

A public exhibition hall surrounds the glass stack tower, and displays among other things one of the 48 extant copies of the Gutenberg Bible.

The same year, 1925, saw the installation of a reconstruction of Gutenberg ’ s workshop which soon became one of the museum ’ s main attractions.

Many book-lovers have commented on the high standards achieved in the production of the Gutenberg Bible, some describing it as one of the most beautiful books ever printed.

Given that each letter has uppercase and lowercase forms, and the number of various punctuation marks and ligatures ( e. g. the sequence ' fi ' combined in one character, commonly used in writing ) the Gutenberg Bible needed a set of 290 master characters.

Ken was recognized by many financial and technological publications for this success, most notably when he was named one of the 100 most influential people of 2004 in TIME magazine and the " Gutenberg of Video Games ".

The university also owns one of only four remaining 36-line Gutenberg Bibles from the year 1458.

Among them is one of the few remaining perfect copies of the Gutenberg Bible.

The Redactor's note by Norm Wolcott, at Project Gutenberg, claims that this translation is the most popularly reprinted one, despite the flaws.

The two most prominent possessions in the Ransom Center's collections are a Gutenberg Bible ( one of only 21 complete copies known to exist ) and Nicéphore Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras, the first successful permanent photograph from nature.

Given the clue of " hand-writing " that terminates the " oral phase " one expects " printing " to terminate the manuscript phase and the " electrifying " to bring an end to the Gutenberg era.

At the turn to the Renaissance, Gutenberg ’ s invention of mechanical printing made possible a dissemination of knowledge to a wider population, that would not only lead to a gradually more egalitarian society, but one more able to dominate other cultures, drawing from a vast reserve of knowledge and experience.

The library of the Petit Château contains over 1300 manuscripts and 12, 500 printed volumes, including a Gutenberg Bible that is part of the collection of over 700 incunabula ), and some 200 medieval manuscripts, including one page of the Registrum Gregorii ( c. 983 ), the Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry, the Ingeborg Psalter and 40 miniatures from Jean Fouquet's Book of Hours of Etienne Chevalier.

The Catholicon was one of the first books to be printed, using the new printing technology of Johannes Gutenberg in 1460 ; it is unclear who did the printing though Gutenberg himself was once regarded as the printer responsible.