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Definition of Gutenberg
1. Noun. German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468).
Definition of Gutenberg
1. Proper noun. ''Johannes Gutenberg'', a German printer who independently invented movable type (though it had previously been invented in East Asia centuries earlier). ¹
2. Proper noun. Project Gutenberg. ¹
3. Proper noun. A lunar crater. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gutenberg
Literary usage of Gutenberg
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Gutenberg next manufactured a new printer's outfit with the assistance he received
worker in ... Gutenberg multiplied the separate types in metal moulds. ..."
2. The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster by Antonius van der Linde (1871)
"Let us follow Gutenberg by the help of positive documents. Evidences of pecuniary
embarrassment present themselves afterwards also at Strasburg. ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"The partnership terminated at the end of 5 years in a suit brought by Faust
against Gutenberg for moneys advanced, and the latter was obliged to surrender ..."
4. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"The chief authorities on the life of Gutenberg are: Essai d'annales de la ...
facts and the arguments which the life and works of Gutenberg have evolved, ..."
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