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Anyone see the Gutenberg Bible?
I didn't hear about this until it was nearly over and Melbourne is too far away anyway, but they had one of the 9 (?) surviving Gutenberg Bibles on display down there. I love that sort of stuff and I would have seen it if I could. I saw the Fra Mauro world map and the Matthew Flinders maps in Canberra last year. Real 'lump in the throat' stuff.
Of course the Gutenberg was so important and revolutionary. For the first time knowledge wasn't just for the rich. In this internet age we have become accustomed to having knowledge at our fingertips but of course I remember when it was significantly more difficult. When my parents bought me a globe of the Earth my grandfather had never seen anything like it. But how much less would the commoners have been able to know back then?
So, did anyone see it and what were your impressions?
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