Gutenberg Bibles Online 127
Richey writes: "The British Library is making the Gutenberg Bible, the first major bible printed in the West available online. (Direct link to the book)." This isn't the first high-res copy of the Gutenberg Bible online; a German university library has already done it with their copy, but it's still cool. Update: 11/23 8:25 AM by michael : For the people that skipped those boring history classes, this was the first book printed in the western world with movable type, a huge leap in printing technology.
You guys are missing the point! (Score:5)
The thing about moveable type is that it made books afffordable. Like the Internet, it suddenly made a lot of information available to people.
The Bible 2: Jesus Takes Manhattan (Score:2)
You've read the first. But you don't know the whole story...
Jesus is back. This time, it's personal.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Re:Well, aren't you great (Score:1)
If you want to believe in God, go for it, then take a look around at the state the world is in and shut your fucking mouth. As for christmas, it always amuses me that christians jump onto this pagan festival. I mean it's the ultimate consumergasm. BUY BUY BUY! SPEND SPEND SPEND! I don't particularly believe in God, but I do believe in a higher power. I just choose to think that he or she would have the sense to not put such jackasses like 80% of christians are on earth to spread his word. As I always "God, I believe in you, but your envoys on earth are morons."
As for me, I personally don't with christmas anymore than I have to for the sake of my family. It's a fucking joke. People say "I won't get you any presents" as if to test my belief to which I say "Okay." I honestly and truthfully don't care. Why should there be a day a year set aside for being kind to your fellow man in the "christmas spirit". What's wrong with all year? This christmas a friend I haven't seen in years is coming to visit. That's more than a good enough present for me, but no doubt people like yourself will go to church, sing sombre hymns and generally mull around like you're at a funeral, then go home and stuff yourself stupid without a second thought to those who are alone at this depressing and solitary time of year.
Think on that as you eat your turkey...
About time. (Score:2)
At last someone's seen some sense.
1 book, it's a start...
FatPhil
Latin (Score:1)
Latin. They didn't have Microsoft Word spellchecked US English in those days.
Not classical Latin but the religious latin that had adapted somewhat by this time (1500 years after the Romans).
Actually I thought the typeface was remarkably clean and sharp. Just depends on your culture and how you're expecting letters to look (check out contemporary printings of the Koran, or Talmud).
Anyone notice what language it was printed in? (Score:2)
Public domain (Score:2)
High res? (Score:2)
Gutenberg bibles online (Score:1)
What if...? (Score:1)
Re:People like you make me sick (Score:1)
However, I find your post is equally objectionable. You are as bigotted and as narrow-minded as the person to whom you respond.
Are you really so insecure in your faith that you need to rubbish that of other people? Perhaps you should embrace the 15 billion years of secular culture.
Re:What if...? (Score:1)
Familiarity breeds contempt. Americans are mostly surrounded by screaming protestant fundamentalists, other denominations and religions generally keep their heads down and do the American thing - keep Church and State apart.
Warning Monty Python quote (Score:1)
Re:About time. (Score:1)
The technology has been right for digitising books since exactly the time the technology has been right for digitising porn.
I can't prove the first porn image was scanned in the 70s, but it certainly wouldn't be the late eighties.
FP.
Re:The pressures of marketing in 1454 ... (Score:1)
2.It was decided to increase the number of lines per page, presumably to save paper.
And how many lines did they decide to fit per collumn (actually after 18 collumns)? 42!! Obviously Gutenberg knew that to make the most famous book of all time he should use a magical number of lines.
Another little tidbit: The first letter of each book of the bible and section starts with a hand drawn letter. For the cheeper versions, these hand drawn letters are rather plain, but as one can see from the Kings version at the site, some versions had very elaboratly drawn letters. This was done after the printing by specialized painters (getting paid in proportion to how elaboratley they could draw).
Re:not to troll or anything (Score:2)
Re:not to troll or anything (Score:1)
However, you, of course, don't have to read the whole thing from page to page. This is a sweet link to have bookmarked when some jerk on irc claims he is quoting "Matteus 5:1" or whatever.
If reading normal books on line if tough for you, this one should give you a head ache in about 30 seconds (just to figure out what the letters are in a given word is a chore). Note as well that it's in latin, and the IRC jerk will probabily claim that you don't know Latin well enough to translate it. At any rate, most of the bible is written in Hebrew and Greek, IIRC; and only a few Letters were written in Latin, so your argument would not be valid anyway. Now if you found a copy of a scribe-written bible in the origonal laguages, you might be in luck.
Re:Lazy Sod (Score:2)
Damn straight I would.
Re:Keep this filth off the internet! (Score:1)
~cHris
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Chris Naden
"Sometimes, home is just where you pour your coffee"
????? (Score:1)
Re:Lazy Sod (Score:1)
Re:Huh? LOTS of bibles are available online (Score:1)
It's a joke, dammit
Another testament of Jesus Christ (Score:1)
Re:This is great (Score:1)
Re:Trinity College and the Book of Cells (Score:1)
regards,
john.
That's correct (Score:2)
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Re:Your views mirrored (Score:1)
> Religion has done nothing but harm
> in the history of man.
man - what do you know about religion.
any religion that does those things is not worthy of the name. what you are referring to is the failure of religion.
Re:????? (Score:2)
Trivial. Attack me, and the proof will become self-evident.
D'oh! (Score:2)
To be honest I don't think it's that interesting just having a major bible online. The British Library has done it well though.
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Re:People like you make me sick (Score:1)
The bible teaches people to "Love thy Neighbour" That means, among other things, you must teach them about your beliefs, lest they die. God-fearing people look down on others because they want them to get saved like they have. No doubts, just worry for the soul of the OTHER person.
Re:But we're still waiting for the Bible 2 (Score:1)
Re:laptop to church (Score:1)
Re:Huh? LOTS of bibles are available online (Score:1)
hear hear! (Score:1)
Trinity College and the Book of Cells (Score:1)
Re:High res? (Score:1)
Lazy Sod (Score:1)
Re:Anyone notice what language it was printed in? (Score:2)
I believe the first bible to be translated into English was the Wycliff version. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. <--- Hey look a first on /. Someone asking to be corrected if they are wrong :)
Allthough most bibles don't properly TRANSLITERATE [olivebranch.org.nz] the names.
From http://www. the modernreligion.com/comparative/christ/bibleversion .htm [themodernreligion.com]
Yahweh [yahweh.org] bless.
Re:High res? (Score:2)
My mistake. There are two levels of thumbnails. Click on the 60k JPEG to get a 900k JPEG which is indeed high resolution and legible.
one other thing (Score:1)
i'm open minded - but if you want me to believe in something, you damn well better bring some facts to back your point up. EVERY argument i've had about the existance of god has come down to something on the order of:
"dude, you just gotta have faith"
sorry, but that's basically saying that, in order to find proof that god exists, i first have to believe that he exists...
WTF?!?! You want me to believe in god...it's really simple - GIVE ME PROOF HE/SHE/IT EXISTS!!!!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Re:High res? (Score:1)
The full size version is presented in 1450 x 2048 and is often 1.5Mb in size.
Re:People like you make me sick (Score:2)
What a perfect example of the kind of secular thinking that has led Western culture down the road to decadence and immorality.
A road traveled by so many great civilizations before. The road signs are not "Godlessness" but "Success, beware"
Rather than embracing over two thousand years of our cultural heritage,...
If two thousand year old theories are better than current ideas, then I guess pre-christian religions must be even better?
Funny, replying to someone calling christianity a myth by calling it the *undoubted* truth. Apparently at least someone has doubts... Actually a few billion people have.
The Truth is that the Bible teaches us of our place in the Universe and how to live our life in a decent, moral manner, so that all mankind will better itself and rise up to Heaven when they die. But oh no, you'd rather accept concepts like "moral relativism", an excuse for atheists to do what they want without fear of consequence
The bible has some nice ideas about how to live in a moral manner. Ideas that followers of most religions as well as atheists would agree upon. But why the emphasis? If the bible is correct, why should the God fearing worry? They are on the right side. The only reason to look down on the less God-fearing would be if you had your doubts about wether your moral behavoiur will pay off and you don't want others to have the benefits of a less godly life.
Unfortunately, science has said nothing, and indeed can say nothing, about the ultimate Truth of creation.
Fortuately, neither can the bible.
The only truth is: We don't know.
You make me sick.
You make me laugh. Gee, that *makes* you a better person!
it's goatse.cx (Score:2)
It's PD because it's before 1923 (Score:2)
god should sue for copyright infringement. It's his work, and he aint dead yet.
Any work created on or before December 31, 1922 (such as the original Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek source of the Bible or the authorized 1611 English translation thereof commissioned by King James), is public domain. Any work created on or after January 1, 1923, is effectively under perpetual copyright in the United States [everything2.com] thanks to Congress's "creative" use of a loophole in the Constitution.
Re:Trinity College and the Book of Cells (Score:1)
Which is actually a number of books (4?) that relate the gospels. Quite beautiful really.
I presume that the reason it isn't online is due to the profit motive. Which of course doesn't preclude it being placed online at a future date
Re:Anyone notice what language it was printed in? (Score:1)
And rightly so, because they knew the popularization of printed Bibles (specially those translated into vernacular languages) would allow all manners of used car salesmen to call themselves preachers, just by virtue of thumping the Holy Book with enough self righteousness. Time has only proved them right. After all, the bastion of religion is ignorance.
No, it is the bastion of false religion.
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Bible 2 and global fringe cult (Score:1)
The Bible II would only start a global fringe cult at best!!
As an anonymous coward commented above [slashdot.org], this "global fringe cult" is called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints [lds.org].
Today, Gutenburg, Tomorrow, Voynich! (Score:1)
For those who are not aware, the Voynich Manuscript is perhaps the only work of European literature that remains untranslated, or even undeciphered. It is a handwritten work on vellum, 300+ pages long, written in a finely calligraphed alphabet found nowhere else in the world, and illustrated by drawings of plants, astronomical diagrams, and strange arrangements of pipes inhabited by frolicking naked women.
Unfortunately, this work can only be accessed by accredited scholars at Beineke Library at Yale, who has so far been unwilling to produce a full-color photocopy of it, although some pages are available through the Beineke web site. This represents a loss not only to scholars, but to artists, cryptographers, healers (it may be a medical text), and to the public at large. Please email Beineke library and petition them to make this work available, if not in a book, then online.
Keep this filth off the internet! (Score:1)
The cheeeeldran, the cheeeeldran!
Re:Anyone notice what language it was printed in? (Score:2)
An understanding of the bible by the people helped lead directly to the protestant reformation. This fragmentation of the catholic church's power was very important to the social and scientific advances of the past few centuries. Democracy and theocracy are mutually exclusive. Imagine a western world similar to that of islamic countries where the church and the state are one and the same and everyone is brainwashed by religion. One where demonstrable reality takes a back seat to what some priest says is the truth based on the beliefs of a mid-eastern culture from ancient antiquity. For all practical purposes you might as well be living in the soviet union. But luckily we don't have to live like that. We live in a world where what can be seen and what can be proven is the basis for the interpretation of reality. One where each of us has the freedom to speak our mind without fear of imprisonment and tortue.
Re:one other thing (Score:1)
i almost feel bad for you guys sometimes...i mean, is that the strongest argument you have for the existance of god? If there is a god - he's going to be pretty pissed off, come judgement day, that you guys didn't have anything better to say than some philosophical babble about how we can't actually prove that something DOESN'T exist.
going back to an earlier argument i made. Prove to me that 10,000 foot invisible lizard people didn't create the universe. Oh...you can't prove that they didn't???? Well then, they must exist. (if my invizible lizard-god argument is insane...then prove it to me without poking holes in your own crackpot theory on "god").
sorry theists, but the burden of proof lies with you guys...and every argument i've ever heard is just fucking weak.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Re:A good use for the internet (Score:1)
I would be happy if the morons here showed any sign of intelligent thought period. This is the land of glib remarks, witty sarcasm, etc.
Seeing the significance of having great historical documents like this online is just beyond these idiots.
Ummm... (Score:1)
Thou shalt have no clusters before me.
Thou shalt not kill -9
Thou shalt honour your parent process
Thou shalt not fork thy neighbors code
Re:not to troll or anything (Score:1)
Re:ahh. good (Score:3)
Latin for Babelfish
Re:Lazy Sod (Score:1)
...and they would have been accessible to 50+m Brits rather than just the few hundred thousand that live a short bus ride away from Euston. (Yeah, I'm gonna pay #4.80 to travel on the underground to go read a book, right).
You said :
I said you were lazy for walking from Euston to the BM and not from 20km away. It's only a couple of minutes.
Do I say it's a bus ride from Euston to the BL? I, not being a central Londoner, thought that the reading room _was_ in Euston. When I walk from Euston/Euston Square to Kings Cross, I pass it, and deemed it closer to Euston than KX.
I claimed that it was only accessible to those a bus ride away (from the Library/Euston). I still claim that. 99% of the country do not fall into this category. Many/most "Londoners", such as my parents in Harrow, would have to fork out something like #4.80 for a return ticket to get there.
FP.
The year is 3012.. (Score:1)
L Ron Richey writes "The Scientology Library is making the Original BattleField Earth script avaliable on-deck, the first major bible printed in the Theaten Sphere available online....
More historical info on the Guternberg Bible (Score:1)
I found a great article with a bit of history on the Gutenberg Bible and a recent attempt to make a copy of the Cardinal Mazarin edition. It is amazing that out of an estimated 180 originals there are only 20 copies left in existence!
Enjoy... [state.or.us]
-Shawn
"The whole world admits unhesitatingly, and there can be no doubt about this that Gutenberg's invention is the incomparably greatest event in the history of the world." -Mark Twain
Big J (Score:1)
No! Jesus was batman
Hell no! That was Bruce Wayne!
to answer the original question (Score:1)
if you believe in god, in my opinion, you are dumb. jews, muslims, christians, etc. all equal.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
But we're still waiting for the Bible 2 (Score:1)
Imagine the publishing opportunities, after all 2000 years is long enough for any mortal to write a sequal why should god be any different ?
More importantly has anyone made a lego version of the Bible yet ?
Re:People like you make me sick (Score:1)
simple. i believe in nothing. my life has no value, neither does yours. neither does anyone else's. We are a cosmic fluke. There may be others like us, on some other planet (in fact, i'm pretty sure there are. read: statistical probability).
why are we here? i have no idea - i figure somewhere a long time ago, life just happened. no rhyme, no reason - i've never seen any indication that there is a rhyme or reason.
what happens when we die? we're worm food. our bodies cease to function and we are buried. decomposers (worms, fungus, etc.) eat us and take what's left of the energy stored in our bodies. other organisms, higher up on the food chain, eat them...and thusly, the cycle of life continues...perhaps, in that sense, we are all canibals.
but in the end, it makes no difference. we are here for nothing.
if you ask me about morality, why it exists, i will give you this justification: if humans have a single evolutionary purpose, it is to see that that evolution continues unabated. Species continue to survive because they find it in their interests to survive. Otherwise, homo oftheweekticus would have died out hundreds of thousands of years ago - and no one would have cared. So - we have evolved with a genetic will to survive. In that instance - it is in our own best interests to set "rules" to ensure our survival.
i only have morals insofar as they serve either my own interests, or the interests of the species. No killing: this decreases the human population...that is bad for humans in general.
Don't be a dick to your fellow humans. this just comes down to the fact that i don't want to be treated poorly (i.e. being beaten up, mugged, etc.) - so i'll treat others in the manner that i wish to be treated. if we all abided by this rule, we'd all get along pretty well.
that pretty much sums up my belief system - there are others...but these are the big'uns.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Huh? LOTS of bibles are available online (Score:2)
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Re:But we're still waiting for the Bible 2 (Score:1)
You didn't read the linked story, did you
Szo
Re:But we're still waiting for the Bible 2 (Score:1)
Kleedrac
This is great (Score:2)
Incidentally, there is another one (from the University of Keio (Japan) here [keio.ac.jp].
Re:DjVu? (Score:1)
Kleed
Re:praise the lord... (Score:1)
How do the hypertext links work?
Copyrighting again? (Score:1)
This is just wrong. The work of scanning the page is so much less than the work of creating it. In addition, the content was written by the Pope and meant to be widely known. It bothers me that the British Library Board would claim intellectual property rights in a document of that nature.
Then I downloaded a page of the actual Bible and saw that instead of a copyright notice, it bears a simple notice of who scanned it and when. Much better.
What if the Church had been able to use copyright law to prevent the publication of the Gutenberg Bible? Maybe they could have prevented the reformation. Maybe this is an argument that could show conservatives why intellectual property is not good.
PS - I notice they're running IIS and have that odd microsoftish need to shorten file/directory names. The pioneer in question was, as near as I can render it in US-ASCII, Gutenberg, not "gutenbg". Are they saving keystrokes?
Re:Major (Score:1)
Re:About time. (Score:1)
You can have all the online works you want, but they're no substitute for the real thing...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
People like you make me sick (Score:1)
What a perfect example of the kind of secular thinking that has led Western culture down the road to decadence and immorality. Rather than embracing over two thousand years of our cultural heritage, you're perfectly willing to accept revisionist lies that claim that Christianity is some kind of "myth" rather than being the undoubted Truth of a kind that doesn't exist nowadays.
The Truth is that the Bible teaches us of our place in the Universe and how to live our life in a decent, moral manner, so that all mankind will better itself and rise up to Heaven when they die. But oh no, you'd rather accept concepts like "moral relativism", an excuse for atheists to do what they want without fear of consequence.
History's greatest thinkers have all seen the Truth that the Bible contains - Newton, St Augustine, even Galileo - but people like you think you know better, that science has "proven" that there is no God. Unfortunately, science has said nothing, and indeed can say nothing, about the ultimate Truth of creation. You make me sick.
what? (Score:1)
BTW - i DO belittle most christians. As do i belittle most people who have been "abducted by aliens" and those who believe in the tooth fairy. same principle applies.
one other thing: tell you benevolent god that i want my fucking dog back!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
A good use for the internet (Score:4)
Think laterally here folks!
This is a very useful, very important use for the internet. You are looking at very high resolution images across the internet of a unique book.
OK so this may not be big news for folks whose idea of important books are the latest O'Reilly's a whole 30 minutes away in your nearest bookshop.But for historians, academics, subject specialists, this means potential desktop access to a whole library of significant works that could previously only be accessed by flying 3000 miles to see. Not all of these have been previously accessible via high resolution facsimile copies, and besides, the facsimile copies that do exist are often very expensive themselves and rare enough (they don't do Harry Potter style print runs of 12th century works...)
This is very good news for historians.
Glad to help! (Score:1)
Hell, if I hadn't already posted, I'd moderate you up out of principle. As well as the "Jingle Bells" song and the "torso plate" story.
Damn, why is all the best stuff relegated to '-1'?
Re:About time. (Score:1)
The problem is that there is no public access to the library. To get a readers card you need to demonstrate a need for it - which means access is generally limited to academics, postgraduate students, and undergraduates studying with the Open University.
Putting the Guttenberg Bible online is a good thing - shows what can be done, and gets good publicity for the British Library.
Also there would be copyright issues with converting hundreds of thousands of books - the greatest demand would be for modern texts, but the only ones that could be converted are the older ones. Great for the arts and historians but possibly difficult to justify the cost if they are accessed rarely.
Re:About time. (Score:1)
Yeah, I'm gonna pay £4.80 to travel on the underground to go read a book, right
If you're an academic, and the British Library is the only place to find some work of reference, or other, then its quite likely you'll pay.
As for location, you have to put it somewhere and, given its proximity to so many universities, UCL in particular, its current location is probably pretty good. Until its stock is available online, anyway.
Re:Halleluja (Score:1)
But the devil did take that work and offer up VBscript as an alternative.
Re:But we're still waiting for the Bible 2 (Score:1)
Re:Worst thing that ever happened to Christianity (Score:1)
Why this is important (Score:2)
Technologicaly the Gutenberg Bible represents the first step in mass public disemmination of information that that ultimately lead to the internet. Think of it as a religious floppy disk. Previously, Bibles were labouriously hand copied and could not be distributed widely, much like HD's. The Gutenberg and more importantly its printed descendants, could be sneaker netted across the known world relatively easily.
Philosophically, the Gutenberg Bible is important because it is free as in speech. It began the process of opening the Word of God to examination by others than the clergy. Did this cause the reformation? Maybe not, but it certainly contributed. From the Reformation, come the Protestants, from the Protestants, Capitalism and modern democracy whether or not these are good things I leave up to you to decide.
To have this on the net for everyone to see is simply amazing.
Just to state my biases, I am Pagan not Christian, but I still maintain the Bible is the most important work in the Western canon.
Church and State (Score:1)
I agree Church and State should be kept apart. I didn't realise what it was like in the US... here in the UK it doesn't seem to be so much of an issue. :-) (Matthew 5-7. The Bible)
But a coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church (GK Chesterton). The church can never acheive its aims through politics anyway, Jesus certainly didn't do it that way, and I certainly can't imagine any government enacting the set of laws that Jesus sets out in the Sermon on the Mount!
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth... etc etc [gospelcom.net]
Hey, maybe some of those screaming protestant fundamentalists should try reading some of it ;-)
But seriously though, in a democracy of course everybody should have a voice, so every religious group has a right to speak out. Though I think Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement is a good example of how the church should be involved in politics ie. tackling real issues with grace, humility, love and coutesy.
Re:People like you make me sick (Score:1)
Most of history's greatest thinkers believed there was a god because they were raised to believe there was a god. In their time, belief in god was not only common, it was assumed (BTW - Augustine is a REALLY bad example as he was himself a man of the cloth, so there's a general conflict of interest). I, too, believed there was a god for quite a number of years before waking up one day and realizing that i had absolutely no proof whatsoever (not even circumstantial evidence) that there was a god.
FYI - a number of history's greatest thinkers also believed that there was no god. Sagan was a perfect example.
So the question becomes - what undeniable truth do you have to offer the world that a god does, in fact, exist? Surely it can't be the arguments brought to bear by Aquinas or Augustine - these arguments are easily refuted by even the simplest musings of someone like Hume. (yes, athiests can read - and do quite frequently).
The fact of the matter is - you can offer no proof whatsoever. I should know, i've looked. And furthermore, it does not fall upon science to disprove the existance of god. It falls upon believers to PROVE the existance of such a deity. If I were to convey my belief about a race of 10,000 foot tall lizard-people who created the universe, and still roam the earth (although they are invisible) - you would call me crazy.
my question: can you prove they don't exist?
no? then by following your logic - they MUST exist.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Uh oh... (Score:1)
We must sign a permanent alliance with the Germans or the Aztecs if we are to have any hope of defeating the evil British.
Re:Why this is important (Score:1)
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Ok I had to (Score:2)
"May He who is without .sig throw the first exception"
anyone that wants to actually see it... (Score:1)
http://www.research.att.com/~reeds/voynich.html
this is a good starting point, and has a link to the beinecke as well, so you can browse the collection
not to troll or anything (Score:2)
However, you, of course, don't have to read the whole thing from page to page. This is a sweet link to have bookmarked when some jerk on irc claims he is quoting "Matteus 5:1" or whatever.
Re:Keep this filth off the internet! (Score:1)
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Halleluja (Score:2)
Amen.
Re:Is this the most boring story ever on Slashdot? (Score:1)
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Re:Halleluja (Score:1)
And on the 8th day, He created HTML, and He saw that it was good.
Short story on the Gutenberg Bible (Score:1)
Major (Score:1)
> Uhh? The Bible Gateway has dozens of major Bibles available online
I think you miss the point: *major* bible.
This is just about the most major bible ever created - online versions of modern translations do not count as major when compared to Gutenberg's bible - after all, Gutenberg's invention of printing has to count as one of the most important developments in the history of Western civilization.
Re:Major (Score:1)
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laptop to church (Score:3)
Mark [zwienenberg.com]
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Re:not to troll or anything (Score:2)
When electronic books become cheaper and more widespread this will cease to be a problem.
They have the portability of mobile web access (wap, i-mode etc) with the readability of a traditional book.
The book readers that are slowly becoming available have backlit display, are virtually indestructable (i.e. in moments of boredum you throw them at your collegues) and allow you to download new books or journals to them as you see fit.
Of course unlike a traditional book or newspaper content will be able to be updated....
The pressures of marketing in 1454 ... (Score:3)
While producing the Bible, Gutenberg's team learned fast about the economy of printing. This is reflected in differences between various copies of the Bible.
Three major changes of plan can be detected :
1.It was first envisaged that rubrics should be printed in red. This was soon abandoned, perhaps to save time.
2.It was decided to increase the number of lines per page, presumably to save paper.
3.It was decided to increase the print-run, but as some sheets had already been printed in the number first envisaged, these pages had to be printed again. This is the best explanation for why a number of the pages exist in two different versions.
Times haven't changed that much, now have they?
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As with most things... (Score:2)
Failed to use it "effectively?" (Score:3)
Westerners got thier hands on these powders and started to make weapons and started war.
So, who failed to use it effectively?