HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Albrecht Durer
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Thomas More
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Erasmus
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Johann Gutenberg
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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 – Johannes Gutenberg was a goldsmith and inventor from Germany who is credited with inventing moveable type printing in Europe. By 1438, Johannes Gutenberg had begun experimenting with printing.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the mid-1400s a German craftsman named Johannes Gutenberg developed a way to handle this process by machine-the first printing press. His invention combined movable pieces of metal type that could be reused with a press that could produce sharp impressions on paper over and over again.