LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Edmund Spencer
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Gutenberg
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Marlowe
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Dr Faustus
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Detailed explanation-1: -Goldsmith and inventor Johannes Gutenberg was a political exile from Mainz, Germany when he began experimenting with printing in Strasbourg, France in 1440. He returned to Mainz several years later and by 1450, had a printing machine perfected and ready to use commercially: The Gutenberg press.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gutenberg is credited with having invented printing using movable type. It has been assumed that the process he invented around 1450 was the method that continued to be used for another 500 years.
Detailed explanation-3: -Around 1450, German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg introduced the metal movable-type printing press in Europe, along with innovations in casting the type based on a matrix and hand mould.