The Gutenberg Revolution the Work and Life of a Great Humanist: Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468)
Jacques G. Ruelland 1436: The Gutenberg Revolution The work and life of a great Humanist: Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468) 151113 1 « God suffers because a multitude of people can’t read the holy scriptures. The truth is imprisoned into a small number of manuscripts which contain treasures. Let us break the seal which binds them, let us give wings to the truth, in order not to be handwritten anymore with main efforts by hands which are becoming tired, so that they may multiply by a untiring machine and fly to reach everybody. Allotted to Gutenberg, 1455. » 2 Foreword This conference describes the life and work of the great humanist, Johannes Gutenberg, unlucky as in business as in love, but who upset the Occident by inventing modern printing works and tools. 3 Foreword This synthesis is made of conferences given at several occasions: May 5, 1999, Museum of Civilization, Quebec City, QC; June 27, 1999, and September 30, 2005, Zenon-Alary Museum, Mont-Rolland, QC; November 5, 2000, Graphic Arts Institute, Ahuntsic College, Montreal, QC; July 5, 2001, History Department, University of Montreal, QC; September 21, 2001, University of Quebec, Chicoutimi, QC; September 23, 2001, Congress Center, Jonquiere, QC; October 29, 2003, St. John College, St. John on the Richelieu, QC; November 2, 2005, Canadian Museum of Fine Arts, Ottawa, ON. 4 Foreword Most of the black/white pictures herein printed are parts of a collection of several hundreds of slides which was my property since 1985, and which I recently donated to Quebec Printing Museum (QPM). The oldest of those glass slides measured 3¼ x 3¼ inches, or 3¼ x 4 inches, and where projected on a screen by a projector of Bausch & Lomb Co.
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