"A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men."

📖 #JohannesGutenberg, German publisher and printing press trailblazer, #DOTD 3 February 1468. #Publishing #Literature

Gutenberg Anniversaries - not all that they seem? The date of 24 August is often claimed as the anniversary of the Gutenberg Bible, the first European book printed with moveable type. The date is not in fact the anniversary of the printing being comp...

📖 #OTD in #History 24 Aug 1456, #TheGutenbergBible is traditionally celebrated as having been finished and bound as the first European movable type printed book by #JohannesGutenberg. However, this article points out the uncertainty of the anniversary: blogs.bl.uk/european/202...

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 14 August 1457, the MAINZ PSALTER, the second book published using movable type, after the Gutenberg Bible, was completed by #JohannFust and #PeterSchoeffer, following their split from #JohannesGutenberg. Only 10 copies survive. Beautiful.

#todayinhistory
#february23

🔴 #1455 #johannesgutenberg prints his first Bible (estimated date)

🔴 #1898 #emilezola is imprisoned in France for writing his "J'accuse" letter which accused the government of anti-Semitism and of wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus

"A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men."

📖 #JohannesGutenberg, German publisher and printing press trailblazer, #DOTD 3 February 1468. #Publishing #Literature

Intro 4.
While we're doing the #bookchallenge, here's a song we wrote in 2016 to celebrate literacy and print, which we sang in several libraries under threat of closure.
#JohannesGutenberg
#WordsMatter
#books #printing

youtu.be/BoGH_O3tD6o?...

Have you heard of #JohannesGutenberg and his invention of printing with movable type in the 1450s? Check out our short video series on the history & art of printing in Mainz and around the globe, the Gutenberg #printingpress & the #GutenbergBible of 1454...

JETZT REINSCHAUEN: Unter Federführung des Mainzer #Buchwissenschaft-Profs Stephan Füssel ist eine 8-teilige #Videoreihe rund um #JohannesGutenberg (1400-1468), den #Buchdruck, die Buchdruckerkunst und die Gutenberg-Bibel entstanden ... ALLE VIDEOS unter...

Zum 550. Todestag von #JohannesGutenberg in diesem Jahr warten verschiedenste Mainzer Institutionen mit einer Vielfalt an Veranstaltungen auf. Die #Buchwissenschaft der Uni Mainz starten den Reigen mit einer Tagung am 26. Januar ... http://www.magazin.uni-mainz.de/8608_DEU_HTML.php