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Johannes Gutenberg: How One Man Remade The World

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Books, photos, labels, even this, the essay you’re reading, have all been printed. But when did we start printing things? Didn’t the world used to hand write all books and hand draw all pictures? The answer is yes, we used to. But then Johannes Gutenberg came around and invented the printing press. It was a more efficient way of printing (but not as efficient as today 's printer!). It was, in fact, one of the most influential inventions of the time! It impacted the output of ideas, religion, and allowed a new way for text and picture to be produced. The first impact mention was the output of ideas; ideas being literature, maps and discoveries, schoo studies, and things of that sort. The printing press allowed many old (Classical and Medieval) writers works to be copied faster and distributed. Examples would be The Imitation of Christ, Iliad and Odyssey, and The Cosmographia (Document K). The press also copied letters, such as one from Columbus which was spread around letting the people know of a new discovery. A map of the spread of this …show more content…

Martin Luther, the man who can be credited with the start of the Protestant Revolution, wrote a paper called the 95 Thesis. As John Man said in Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words, “As Rome prepared the heavy artillery, Luther fired off more salvos with the help of the press. His sermons, tracts, and polemics, all in German… streamed from the presses by the hundreds of thousands.” (Document D) With Luther and many other reformers, the church started to lose power. And much of their success was due to the help of the printing press, spreading their thoughts (Document E). The printing press didn’t only help the reformers of religion though. Printing of the Polyglot Bible helped spread religion in multiple languages. Instead of creating tension like the Protestant reformers, this bible was a calm spread of religion. (Document

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