THE GUTENBERG REVOLUTION: THE STORY OF A GENIUS AND AN INVENTION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Book ID/图书代码： 00000104B07970

English Summary/英文概要： In 1450, all Europe’s books were handcopied and amounted to only a few thousand. By 1500 they were printed, and numbered in their millions. The invention of one man - Johann Gutenberg - had caused a revolution. Printing by movable type was a discovery waiting to happen.

Born in 1400 in Mainz, Germany, Gutenberg struggled against a background of plague and religious upheaval to bring his remarkable invention to light. His story is full of paradox: his ambition was to reunite all Christendom, but his invention shattered it; he aimed to make a fortune, but was cruelly denied the fruits of his life’s work. Yet history remembers him as a visionary; his discovery marks the beginning of the modern world.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1450年的时候，欧洲各地的书都是手工抄写的，一年总共加起来也出不了几千本。而到了1500年的时候，就有了印刷，每年印量达几百万。印刷术的出现，使得现代科学和文学得以发展，政治上也发生的转型，小城邦扩大成了大国。可以说，印刷术的到来给人类文化产生的变化是自字母表发明以来最巨大的。由JOHANN GUTENBERG倡导的活字印刷术蓄势待发。 古腾堡生于1400年的美因滋，他在克服了大瘟疫和宗教巨变这样的恶劣环境下，把他的这一伟大发明公之于众的，同时也激发了一场革命，一场改变旧世界的革命，一场旧貌换新颜的革命。 但是古腾堡的故事还是充满矛盾的：他一面想要统一整个基督教世界，但是他发明的印刷术却毁了这一切；他想发笔财，可是他一辈子的心血成果却被残酷的否决了。

Awards/获奖情况：The Gutenberg Revolution is the best book about the origin of books you could read. It is clear, engaging, fast-paced and authoritative.---Stephen Fry

Extremely erudite and enormously enthusiastic---Guardian

Vivid . . . engaging, detailed and highly readable . . . a window on an extraordinary display of consummate skill and creative genius---New Scientist

About the Author/作者介绍： John Man身為歷史學家及旅行作家，對蒙古及中國特別感興趣，著有《長城》The Great Wall, The Terracotta Army,《古騰堡革命》The Gutenberg Revolution,《發現成吉思汗：出生、死亡與復活》Genghis Khan,《忽必烈汗 》Kublai Khan及《上帝之鞭阿提拉》Attila the Hun等書，現居英國倫敦。

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