A PAGE from a nearly 600-year-old Gutenberg Bible, regarded as the first mass-printed book using mechanized movable type in ...

It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor ...

Michael Visontay’s unexpected link to the Gutenberg Bible, the world’s most coveted book Read more ...

Outside of the discovery of fire, the finding of American continents, the invention of manned flight and the advent of the ...

While the printing press was to change history, readers of the first mass produced book, the Gutenberg Bible, would have ...

The Gutenberg Bible has long been a magic term among book collectors. As the "first printed book worthy of the name", copies of it have been valued at above $350,000. Harvard has an outstanding ...

A daring burglar came within inches of successfully stealing Harvard's Gutenberg Bible from its resting place in Widener Library on August 19. He succeeded in foiling the library's alarm system ...

. But the most important part of his invention was actually moveable type. Before Gutenberg, the closest Europe had to printing was the woodblock. The woodblock was a piece of wood with all the ...

This Week in History: The publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first book printed in Europe using movable metal type, with Jenny Spinks Hansen Associate Professor in History at the University ...