HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Torah
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Bible
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Praise and Folly
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Common Sense
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Detailed explanation-1: -Approximately 180 copies of the Gutenberg Bible were printed and first made available in about 1455. Of these, 145 were done on paper. The remaining thirty-five were printed on vellum (treated calfskin). Forty-nine Bibles survived into the twentieth century and only twenty-one of these are complete.
Detailed explanation-2: -Johann Gutenberg’s Bible is probably the most famous Bible in the world. It is the earliest full-scale work printed in Europe using moveable type. Printing with moveable type had been developed earlier in East Asia. The earliest type of this kind is documented in Chinese sources in the 11th century.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gutenberg Bible, also called 42-line Bible or Mazarin Bible, the first complete book extant in the West and one of the earliest printed from movable type, so called after its printer, Johannes Gutenberg, who completed it about 1455 working at Mainz, Germany.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet by William Shakespeare. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. King Lear by William Shakespeare. Paradise Lost by John Milton. Utopia by Sir Thomas More. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. More items