Friday, 26 April 2019

Gutenberg’s Printing Press


A few years ago, I made a model of Johanes Gutenberg’s printing press in SketchUp and I wanted to see how it would look in Blender. The two models are different in that they were based on different reconstructions of what the apparatus might have looked like. Gutenberg built his press in Mainz, Germany, around 1450 to use movable type, probably the first of its kind in the West. While there are no drawings or written records of its design, but most historians assume that it was an adaptation of an existing wine press. Famously, Gutenberg used his press and the new type to print the Gutenberg Latin Bible, of which 48 copies exist today. This model is based on the one at www.inkansblood.com.



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