1. Warm Up
Using the yellow sheet and the people in your group – number the renaissance inventions in order of their importance from 1 (being the most important) to 12 (being the least important). Be prepared to share why you find your #1 to be most important.

2. Johannes Gutenberg And his Printing Press
Renaissance Inventor
Johannes Gutenberg
And his Printing Press

3. Essential Question
How did the invention of the printing press and other renaissance inventions both positively and negatively affect society?

4. Background Information
Born in 1398 in Mainz, Germany
Invented the printing press in 1439
The Gutenberg Bible was published in 1455
He was never financially successful
Credited with the invention of typography in 1504.

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8. Effects: Religion Helped spread Catholicism
Spread great opposition to the Church and spurred new ideas about religion.
Printing of dissenting viewpoints, such as Martin Luther
Printing of the Gutenberg Bible
Once people could now own their own Bible they felt that they could develop their own relationship with God

9. Gutenberg Bibles
Gutenberg Bible of the New York Public Library. Bought by James Lenox in 1847, making it the first copy to come to the United States. According to tradition, the officers at the New York Customs House removed their hats upon seeing it.
The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42) was the first major book printed with movable type in the West and the first major book produced on a printing press anywhere in the world. It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of the printed book in the West. Widely praised for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities,[1] the book has an iconic status. It is an edition of the Vulgate, printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Mainz, Germany, in the 1450s. Forty-eight copies, or substantial portions of copies, survive, and they are considered by many sources to be the most valuable books in the world, even though a complete copy has not been sold since 1978.[2][3] The 36-line Bible is also sometimes referred to as a Gutenberg Bible, but is likely the work of another printer. But is believed to be the second printed version of the Bible. C

10. Effects: Science
Allowed for the spreading of new scientific information
Helped to spread The Scientific Revolution
Cumulative advance of knowledge

11. Effects: Intellectual Thought
Means of permanently recording information and transmitting it to others
Aided in the growth of science
Information not as easily lost as in the past
Increased access to scientific thought
Allowed new ideas to be spread more easily and rapidly

12. Effects: Language Standardized language
As print becomes more common the dialect and spelling conventions that made their way into print become the standard.
First books written in classical languages (Greek and Latin), but soon books written in vernacular languages (English, French, German, etc.)

13. Effects: Social Classes
Before the printing press there is only an upper class and a lower class.
Upper class (nobility)
Buy expensive hand-written books
Pay for tutors
Send their sons to schools

14. Effects: Social Classes
When books become less expensive and more affordable from mass production on printing presses, the lower class
Began to gain access to knowledge

15. Effects: Social Classes
The printing press contributed to the growth of a middle class.
As books were published, people wanted to learn to read. Reading led to thinking, to further publication, and communication with others. The first “World Wide Web” had arrived.
With knowledge, education, and money, the middle-class gained the tools they needed to win more rights from the upper class.

16. The Middle Class: Merchants and Tradesmen

17. Let’s Think About…
What invention of the 20th – 21st century has had as great an impact as the printing press of the Renaissance?