Johannes Gutenberg

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Gutenberg

Gutenberg is a lunar impact crater that lies along the west edge of Mare Fecunditatis, in the eastern part of the visible Moon. It is named after German inventor Johannes Gutenberg
Size: 75km
Longitude/latitude: 41.2° E, 8.6° S
Age: Older than 3.9 billion years

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Franklin Mint History of Mankind Set - Gutenberg's Invention Of Movable Type Stimulates Learning - 1454.   Issued from 1974 until 1982.

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Silver medal 1840    Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the invention of the printing press



Obv.: ❀JOHANNES GUTENBERG❀ - BORN IN MAINZ 1393-1400. DIED 1468.
Bust right, wearing fur hat and coat. On the excerpt: EHRHARDT.F.

Rev.: ❀TO THE GLORY OF THE GERMAN FATHERLAND❀ - OF THE ART OF PRINTING. 1840.    City goddess holds laurel wreath over Gutenberg's bust, surrounded by books and printing tools,
above a shining star.

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Silver medal 1840



Obverse: IV.SAEC.FDBUCHDR.K.IN LEIPZIG / IOHANNES GUTENBERG
Bust of Johannes Gutenberg, half-left, wearing a fur hat and coat. Below: SCHRECK - WARTIG.

Reverse: Jesaias - Cap.8.V.2.
Printing press on a book and a cross in clouds, below a view of Mainz with the Rhine.

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Johannes Gutenberg appears on the facade of Scribners Sons Building, New York City alongside Benjamin Franklin and William Caxton



The Charles Scribner's Sons Building at 597 Fifth Avenue is one of Midtown's best surviving commercial buildings from the early 20th century.  Designed in 1912 by Ernest Flagg, architect of the Little Singer Building on Broadway and an earlier building for Scribner's at 153-157 Fifth Avenue, 597 Fifth Avenue is a virtuoso melding of Parisian detailing and New York scale.

Built for the distinguished publishing company as a corporate headquarters, the building incorporates a two storey retail interior featuring graceful wrought-iron balconies overlooking a central space the AIA Guide to New York City calls "an almost-basilica".

The exterior is both ornate and serene, melding an eye-catching but graceful verticality to the full menu of French Second Empire and Beaux Arts effects, including a two storey wrought iron shop-front; a mansard roof flanked by two Egyptian obelisks; and medallions commemorating great printers from the past, including William Caxton, Benjamin Franklin and Johann Gutenberg.