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Excerpt from The Gutenberg Fiction: A Critical Examination of the Documents Relating to Gutenberg, Showing That He Was Not the Inventor of Printing
Bockenheimer's reasons for objeéting to the documents are plausible; they tend to show that, drawn up in ignorance of the legal, social, and local customs of the period (1434 55) in which the events or aé'tions are said to have taken place, the documents describe actions and proceedings that are at variance with the then prevailing usages. He also points out that according to the researches or Dr. Levi of Strassburg, our knowledge of Strassburg lawsuits goes no further back than the sixteenth century, so that if the Strassburg lawsuit of 1439 were genuine, it would furnish us with extensive records of a trial said to have taken place a century earlier, and would have, on that account, a value far beyond that which it has with respect to Gutenberg's career.
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Excerpt from The Gutenberg Fiction: A Critical Examination of the Documents Relating to Gutenberg, Showing That He Was Not the Inventor of Printing
Bockenheimer's reasons for objeéting to the documents are plausible; they tend to show that, drawn up in ignorance of the legal, social, and local customs of the period (1434 55) in which the events or aé'tions are said to have taken place, the documents describe actions and proceedings that are at variance with the then prevailing usages. He also points out that according to the researches or Dr. Levi of Strassburg, our knowledge of Strassburg lawsuits goes no further back than the sixteenth century, so that if the Strassburg lawsuit of 1439 were genuine, it would furnish us with extensive records of a trial said to have taken place a century earlier, and would have, on that account, a value far beyond that which it has with respect to Gutenberg's career.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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