Before you read this Introduction please take a look at my Word of caution If you type moebius strip at You Tube you’ll get the image above and lots of questionning about what it should mean and one particularly struck me (from sequential geek) and I quote it here: “So this is what it is …
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A biblioteca de Pierpont Morgan
See it in English A Pierpont Morgan Library tem nada mais nada menos que 3 (três) das onze bíblias de Gutenberg que existem nos Estados Unidos!Não sei como fazer uma breve descrição dela, mas independentemente de função, tamanho, valor atribuído, foi talvez o prédio que eu entrei que mais me impressionou de tantos quanto eu …
Explanatory Example of Gutenberg Bible Detail
The reason Portuguese is included is because I am brazilian and we speak Portuguese, which came from Latin Ecclesiastes 3,1-8 In the Gutemberg Bible How it has gotten to us and how we think it is: Ecclesiastes 6,3 (with analysis and annotated translations) Black Gothic Latin Gutenberg Vulgata Black Latin Vulgata Black Portuguese Italic Biblia de …
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The Gutenberg Achievement as seen at the Pierport Museum
Compare with British Library analysis Compare with Wikipedia analysis From Enlightened Manuscript to Print The Illuminated Manuscript, in its uniqueness, presupposes an individual relationship, which I venture to say is a composition of one’s aesthetic sense, sensibility, taste, orientation, sense of life, and why not, one’s level of knowledge and wisdom. My contact with all …
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What are illuminations
Veja em Português Illumination Anatomy Ingo F.Walther/Norbert Wolf – Masterpieces of illumination Example: Les Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame du Duc de Berry, 1380-1412 (Folio 76 verso / 77 recto) In the picture above, the indications (1) and (2) are, respectively, the Verso and the Recto. The Medieval Manuscripts look like books, but they are not. …
Other Tablets that discuss the after effect of Gutenberg
Veja em Português When technology extends or expands one of our senses, culture transposes as fast as the speed of the process of internalizing the new technology (Tablet 70). Although the main theme of this book is the Gutenberg Galaxy, or an event setting, which is far beyond the world of the alphabet and the …
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Why we are entering an era similar to the invention of Gutenberg?
To frame the question, I quote Colin Mercer (2011) first and then James A. Dewar, (1998) . Colin Mercer: Many interesting parallels between the ‘printing revolution’ and the ‘digital revolution’, not least the increasing availability of portable ‘cultural technologies’ such as iPads, iPods, iPhones, etc., as parallel in their impacts to the 16th/17th century increasing …
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As 95 Teses de Martinho Lutero
See it in English Por amor à verdade e pelo desejo de elucidá-la, o Reverendo Padre Martinho Lutero, Mestre em Artes e Teologia Sagrada, e professor ordinário em Wittenberg, pretende defender as seguintes declarações e disputá-las naquele lugar. Por isso, ele pede que aqueles que não podem estar presentes e discutam com ele oralmente o …
Printing Power and Christianity
I thought of writing an article about Printing Power and Religion, but I found, confirming an impression I already had, that the revolution created by Gutenberg mainly affected Christianity . In his book Muslim Identity, Print Culture and the Dravidian Factor in Tamil Nadu, J B P More discussing the influence of Printing for the Muslim, observes that they and the Jews didn’t like, rather they rejected what the Christians embraced so enthusiastically. He observes that the Muslims …
Martin Luther 95 Theses
Ver em Português The 95 Theses Out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it, the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology, and ordinary lecturer therein at Wittenberg, intends to defend the following statements and to dispute on them in that place. Therefore he asks that those who …
Marshall McLuhan & Gutenberg 