The Gutenberg Revolution

Informationen zum Autor John Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia. After reading German and French at Oxford he did two postgraduate courses, one in the history of science at Oxford, the other in Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. John has written acclaimed and highly successful biographies of Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun and Kublai Khan as well as Alpha Beta, on the history of the alphabet, and The Gutenberg Revolution, on the invention of printing. Klappentext John Man is the author of Genghis Khan , Attila the Hun , Kublai Khan , The Terracotta Army , The Great Wall and Alpha Beta . Zusammenfassung The invention of one man - Johann Gutenberg - had caused a revolution. Printing by movable type was a discovery waiting to happen. Born in 1400 in Mainz, Germany, Gutenberg struggled against a background of plague and religious upheaval to bring his remarkable invention to light.

Product details

• Authors: John Man
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2009
• EAN: 9780553819663
• ISBN: 978-0-553-81966-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / General, History of engineering and technology, Printing, packaging & reprographic industry, History of engineering & technology, Inventions & inventors, Inventions and inventors, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade, medieval 1450 1500; Printing press movable type christendom