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In less than 50 years after the invention of the printing press, fifteen million books had been flung into a world where previously scholars would travel miles to visit a library stocked with twenty hand-written volumes. And those books reflected some thirty thousand titles.
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Books produced in this period, between the first work of Johannes Gutenberg in 1450 and the year 1500, are collectively referred to as incunabula.
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Gutenberg changed plans at least three times while printing the Bible.
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The Bible that Gutenberg printed was a Latin translation from about 380 AD .
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There are many statues of Gutenberg in Germany -- one of the more famous being a work by Thorvaldsen, in Mainz, home to the Gutenberg Museum.
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Note: We discovered as many spellings with Johann as we did with Johannes. We went with a Google search that produced four times more Johannes Gutenberg's than Johann.
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