[MR] Did Gutenberg Really Invent the Printing Press??

[Jeanne]

http://reuters.excite.com/article/20041029/2004-10-29T145819Z_01_L29145632_R
TRIDST_0_ODD-GUTENBERG-DC.html

MILAN (Reuters) - Johannes Gutenberg may be wrongly credited with producing
Europe's first printed book, an Italian researcher said, causing an uproar
among bibliophiles and academics who see him as the father of the modern
hardback.

One of the world's most precious books, the Gutenberg bible was printed
between 1452 and 1454. It sparked a literary boom in Europe.

Bruno Fabbiani, a lecturer at Turin Polytechnic, said Gutenberg used stamps
rather than the individual, moveable letters he is said to have invented
that accelerated printing and book production.

Before the invention of moveable type, craftsmen laboriously carved wooden
stamps for each page. According to accepted academic research, German
goldsmith Gutenberg was the first to break down the stamps into individual
letters.

"Bruno Fabbiani has devised 30 experiments that show Gutenberg did not use
moveable type to print the bible," Francesco Pirella of Genoa's Museum of
Print said on Friday.

Fabbiani will perform his experiments in a mock trial of Gutenberg in the
Italian port city of Genoa on Saturday.

But other print researchers dismissed Fabbiani's experiments as a stunt.

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