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We sit down with rare book expert Douglas Stewart to examine a truly remarkable piece of history: a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1455.
Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of movable type revolutionized the Western world, moving literature and learning from the exclusive realm of the aristocracy into the hands of everyday people. Before his breakthrough, every book had to be painstakingly handwritten by scribes—a process that was both slow and incredibly expensive.
We sit down with rare book expert Douglas Stewart to examine a truly remarkable piece of history: a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1455.
Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of movable type revolutionized the Western world, moving literature and learning from the exclusive realm of the aristocracy into the hands of everyday people. Before his breakthrough, every book had to be painstakingly handwritten by scribes—a process that was both slow and incredibly expensive.
