BRIGHT DAY SCHOOL CBSE UNIT

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CLASS:- X-DGROUP PROJECT

CH:7th Print Culture and the Modern World

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Print comes to Europe In 1295, Marco Polo, a great explorer

returned to Italy after many years of explorations in China.

He brought the knowledge of print technology back with him from China.

Luxury editions were still hand written on very expensive VELLUM.

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Demands for books increased and Europe began exporting books to different countries.

Book fairs were held.

Scribes started working for booksellers. More than 50 scribes often worked for one bookseller.

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Merchants and students in the university towns brought the cheaper printed copies.

The growing demand for books, woodblocks were being widely used in Europe for printing Textiles, Playing Cards, and Religious pictures with simple, brief texts.

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Gutenberg and the Printing Press

Johann Gutenberg developed the first-known printing press in the 1430s.

He was a son of merchant and grew on a large agricultural estate.

Form his childhood he had seen wine and olive presses.

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He acquired the expertise to create lead moulds using trinkets.

Drawing on this knowledge, he adapted the existing printing technology to design his innovation.

The olive press provided the model for printing press

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Olive press Printing press Wine press

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Johann Gutenbreg8

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By 1448,Gutenberg perfected the system.

First book printed was The Bible.

About 180 copies were printed and it took 3 years to produce them.

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The First Bible (The Gutenberg Bible)

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Initially, the printed books resembled the written manuscripts in appearance and layout.

In the hundred years between 1450 and 1550, printing presses were set up in most parts of Europe.

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The growth of the print industry was so good that about 20 million books appeared in the European markets in the second half of the fifteenth century. In the sixteenth century, this number went up to about 200 million copies.

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Tribute given to Johann Gutenberg during the 2006 FIFA World Cup-Germany. 13Dharmik

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Dharmik Bhatt

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