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Folger Shakespeare Library's collection to go online. American Standard Version, Verseless Second Edition - Verseless Bibles - American Standard, King James, Chinese Union, Reina Valera... Amazon. BibleGateway. The Prophet: Amazon.ca: Kahlil Gibran. eBooks.com: Buy Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Textbooks Online. Ģeografija. The books that shaped history. 6 January 2012Last updated at 01:09 The 15th-Century Gutenberg Bible changed the way books were received and read. It was the first real book to be mass-produced using movable type printing techniques - and so could be made in a fraction of the time it had previously taken scribes to write by hand. The book is one of several influential scripts being investigated by Melvyn Bragg for BBC Radio 4, as he looks at the written world and how it changed our intellectual history. Here, he takes a look at the Gutenberg Bible at the British Library in London - and then travels to Cambridge to see the student notes of Sir Isaac Newton, and how writing helped make the scientific revolution of the Enlightenment possible.
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