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Franco Prussian War Moulin Rouge
1,065 wordsAuguste Escoffier was born on October 28, 1846, in the village of Villeneuve-Loubet, France. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Escoffier and his wife Madeleine Civatte. His father was the villages blacksmith, farrier, locksmith, and maker of agricultural tools. Escoffier's childhood dream was to become a sculptor. Unfortunately he was forced to give up that dream at the age of thirteen, just after he celebrated his first Holy Communion Escoffier was told he was going to be a cook. Although he did ...
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Johann Gutenberg And The Invention Of Printing Press
609 wordsJohann Gutenberg, thought to be the father of modern printing, lived from about 1400 to 1467, where he died at Mainz. He was the son of a coin maker, which may have perhaps influenced him while working around those machines all day. In 1430, Gutenberg and his family migrated to Strasburg, because of political difficulties at the time. There he starting teaching students of his trades, including, gem polishing, making looking glasses, and the printing press. Gutenberg perfected his printing press...
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Johann Bernoulli Royal Society
3,640 wordsGottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz was born on the July 1, 1646 in Leipzig, Germany and died on November 14, 1716 in Hanover, Germany. He was the son of Friedrich Leibnitz, a professor of moral philosophy at Leipzig. Friedrich Leibnitz was evidently a competent though not original scholar, who devoted his time to his offices and to his family as a pious, Christian father. His mother was Catharina Schmuck, the daughter of a lawyer and Friedrich's third wife. Friedrich died when Leibnitz was only six year...
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Calculating Machine Royal Society
874 wordsGottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig. His father was a Professor of Moral Philosophy and Vice Chairman of the faculty of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. His father died when he was six, so his mother raised him. When he was seven, Leibniz attended the Nicolai School in Leipzig. At the school he was taught Latin, but he also taught himself more advanced Latin and some Greek by the age of 12. In 1661, when Leibniz was fourteen he ...
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Credited To Gutenberg Printed
304 wordsJohannes Gutenberg was born into a noble family of the city of Mainz, Germany. His early training was in goldsmith ing. In 1428, he moved to Strasbourg for political reasons, where he remained for over 20 years. It was in Strasbourg that he probably made his first experiments with moveable type. Gutenberg had the idea of utilizing techniques of metalworking, such as casting, punch-cutting, and stamping, for the mass production of books. European books at this time were hand written by scribes in...
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Ninety Five Theses Roman Catholic Church
1,013 wordsMartin Luther? s development of his theology, Lutheranism, took many years of Biblical studies, monastic living and inner soul searching. Luther had been designated by his father to be a lawyer. He pursued this wish by attending the University of Erfurt, a university that was considered to be the best and a university in which religion played a dominant role. In 1505 he passed his Master? s exam and received his degree of Law. Also in 1505 Luther had an intense spiritual experience; a bolt of li...
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27 Bc Ad Bc Ad Road
410 wordsWithin this section of our report I would like to address which emperors had major contributions in the building of Romes road system, and why these roads were important. Herein we will be looking at the emperors Gaius Octavius (Augustus), Tiberius Claudius Drugs Nero Germanius (Claudius I), and Marcus Ulpius Trajans (Trajan), for these emperors seemed to vastly expand the empire which in turn leads to the building of new road systems. Augustus and Trajan seemed to have a direct influence in the...
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Press Was Set End Of The 15 Printing
978 wordsThe font of all wisdom The Gutenberg Revolution John Man 312 pp, Review Subtitles are becoming ridiculously long-winded. The one attached to John Mans little book claims that it is The story of a genius and an invention that changed the world. This is true enough, though it says much about our increasingly semi-literate society that the name Johann Gutenberg alone is no longer assumed to be instantly recognisable. And yet the western father of printing has influenced cyberspace as much as anythi...
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