Gen Suvorov,
Smth like that?
1450, Mainz, Johannes Guttenberg builds a first printing press
About 1450 he set up a press in Mainz on which he probably started printing the large Latin Bible and some smaller
books and leaflets. By 1452, with the aid of borrowed money, Guttenberg began his famous Bible project. Two hundred copies of the
two-volume Gutenberg Bible, a small number of which were printed on vellum. The expensive and beautiful Bibles
were completed and sold at the 1455 Frankfurt Book Fair, and cost the equivalent of three years' pay for the
average clerk.
------------
1476 Westminster, William Caxton sets up England's first printing press
Caxton had been a prolific translator and found the printing press to be a marvelous way to amplify his mission of
promoting popular literature. Caxton printed and distributed a variety of widely appealing narrative titles
including the first popular edition of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Caxton was an enthusiastic editor and he
determined the diction, spelling and usage for all the books he printed. He realized that English suffered from so
much regional variation that many people couldn't communicate with others from their own country. Caxton's
contributions as an editor and printer won him a good portion of the credit for standardizing the English language.
-----------------
1553 Moscow, Makarii begins Bible printing in Russia
Makarii ( c.1482-1564 ) became metropolitan of Moscow in 1542. He established the first printing press in Russia
(1553) to print religious works for Kazan, compiled the Velikii chet i-minei (texts on Russian saints arranged for
12 monthly readings), wrote the Stepennaia kniga [Book of Generations] (a history of the ruling Russian families),
and was a central figure at the Stoglav Sobor (Council of 100 Chapters) in 1551.
----------------------
1776 London, Adam Smith publishes "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"
Adam Smith was the Scottish political economist and philosopher, whose work examined in detail the consequences of
economic freedom. It covered such concepts as the role of self-interest, the division of labor, the function of
markets, and the international implications of a laissez-faire economy. "Wealth of Nations" established economics
as an autonomous subject and, launched the economic doctrine of free enterprise. Smith laid the intellectual
framework that explained the free market and still holds true today.
---------------------
1530 Torun, Poland Nicolaus Copernicus completes "De Revolutionibus"
The work, even though not published until 1543, asserted that the earth rotated on its axis once daily and traveled
around the sun once yearly. Copernicus died in 1543 and was never to know what a stir his work would have caused. It
went against the philosophical and religious beliefs that had been held during the medieval times. And while the
immediate effect of his work was minimal, those who came after him used it as a cornerstone for the foundation of a
new science.
----------------------
