Renaissance+and+Reformation+Documents

Gutenberg in 1454-1455, the inventor of the printing press. He printed this Bible using the movable metal type. || This is a world map made by an ancient Greek called Ptolemy, republished in 1482. His map was important for several reasons. It was more complete map of the world than any other that existed at that time. He used a unique grid technique that had never seen before. Pablo Toscanelli, a Florentine geographer found out that Ptolemy had used perspective to create a map that showed the curvature of the earth on two-dimensional paper. Toscanelli created the first mapping coordinates using Ptolemy's system. These lines of longitude and latitude helped travelers to locate places and calculate distances. ||
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 * This is a page from the Biblia Latina. It is a Bible printed by Johannes