Historic Inventions

by Rupert Sargent Holland

Book Overview

The free cities of medi val Germany were continually torn asunder by petty civil wars. The nobles, who despised commerce, and the burghers, who lived by it, were always fighting for the upper hand, and the laboring people sided now with one party, and now with the other. After each uprising the victors usually banished a great number of the defeated faction from the city. So it happened that John Gutenberg, a young man of good family, who had been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151762438X
• ISBN13: 9781517624385
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"