Renaissance+and+Reformation+Documents


 * ==Guttenburg Bible== || ==Leonardo da Vinci Armored Car== ||
 * [[image:Guttenberg_Bible.jpg]] || [[image:Armored_Car.jpg]] ||
 * ======This is a page from the Biblia Latina which was the first version of the Bible in the vernacular language using a printing press. The printing press was developed in Mainz, Germany in 1450. The printing press allowed people to make more copies of books faster and that allowed many people to be able to read. In the late 1400s only 110 towns had a printing press but by 1500 236 towns had printing presses. In 1500 there was less than20 million printed books but by 1600 there were more than 200 million. The Biblia Latina was the first book printed from the printing press by using movable type. This was the starter of the changing of the way people in Europe were educated.====== || ======This is a sketch of one of Leonardo da Vinci's design. Leonardo was well ahead of his time that he drew designs in his journal. He had drawings of things that were not invented until decades after his death. The sketch here is of an armored car. Leonardo called it the covered chariot. It was used to break through enemy lines and have the infantry men to come in behind. This was not the only drawing Leonardo did of futuristic items. He also drew ideas for diving suits, flotation devices, pillar- lifting machine, a helicopter like machine, a eight- barreled organ gun that is also considered a machine gun, and many more items not invented till after his death on May 2, 1519.====== ||