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Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe. Johannes Gutenberg Gensfleisch born in 1359 in Mainz, Germany. Johannes Gutenberg Gensfleisch born of a noble family named Gensfleisch. Johannes Gutenberg Gensfleisch is a scientist who invented the first printing press that can be dismantled and reassembled.

The youngest son of the upper-class merchant Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden, and his second wife, Else Wyrich, who was the daughter of a shopkeeper. It is assumed that he was baptized in the area close to his birthplace St. Christoph. According to some accounts Friele was a goldsmith for the bishop at Mainz, but most likely, he was involved in the cloth trade. Gutenberg's year of birth is not precisely known but was most likely around 1398.

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe

In 1454, the book was printed in Mainz in contributions from Johannes Gutenberg Gensfleisch most beautiful. This book is now becoming well known as the Gospel of Gutenberg. Johannes Gutenberg Gensfleisch name is not listed in the Code, Johannes Gutenberg Gensfleisch not want to exploit his invention for commercial purposes.

Johannes Gutenberg Gensfleisch first inventor of the method is the use of movable letters made of alloy material. Gensfleisch Johannes Gutenberg invention has led to another various European nations evenly information.

Johannes Gutenberg Gensfleisch died in 1468. During his lifetime never received royalties from its findings, the first printing press. In fact, to this day, his services are still used around the world.

Jan Baptist van Helmont an expert chemistry of Belgium

Jan Baptist van Helmont. He is an expert chemistry of Belgium. He a person who conduct initial research on growth in plants. Jan Baptist van Helmont was born on 12 January 1580 and died on 30 December 1644.  Jan Baptist van Helmont was an early modern period Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be the founder of pneumatic chemistry. Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his ideas on spontaneous generation, his 5-year tree experiment, and his introduction of the word gas from the Greek word chaos into the vocabulary of scientists.


Jan Baptist Van Helmont was the youngest of five children of Maria (van) Stassaert and Christiaen van Helmont, a public prosecutor and Brussels council member, who had married in the Sint-Goedele church in 1567. He was educated at Leuven, and after ranging restlessly from one science to another and finding satisfaction in none, turned to medicine. He interrupted his studies, and for a few years he travelled through Switzerland, Italy, France, and England.

Returning to his own country, Jan Baptist van Helmont obtained a medical degree in 1599. He practiced at Antwerp at the time of the great plague in 1605. In 1609 he finally obtained his doctoral degree in medicine. The same year he married Margaret van Ranst, who was of a wealthy noble family. Van Helmont and Margaret lived in Vilvoorde, near Brussels, and had six or seven children. The inheritance of his wife enabled him to retire early from his medical practice and occupy himself with chemical experiments until his death on the 30th of December 1644.

Daniel Paul Tammet with extraordinary abilities in mathematical computation

Daniel Paul Tammet is a British man who is gifted with extraordinary abilities in mathematical computation , memory, and language learning . He was born with congenital epilepsy. Daniel Tammet FRSA (born 31 January 1979) is an English writer, essayist and autistic savant. His best-selling 2006 memoir, Born on a Blue Day, about his life with high-functioning autism and savant syndrome, was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association.


Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was described as one of France's best-selling books of 2009 by L' Express magazine in its March 2010 edition. Thinking in Numbers, Tammet's third book, was published by Hodder in the UK on 16 August 2012, and by Little, Brown in the United States and Canada on 30 July 2013. Tammet's books have been published in 20 languages. He was Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2012.

He says, each number up to 10,000 each-each have a' unique shape and feel unique, so that he can 'feel' whether these figures include numbers or the main mix. For example, he said that the figure of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful.

Tammet holds the record as a 'process' and calculate the value of Pi to the number 22.514 in just five hours. He also speaks a variety of languages ​, including English, French, Finnish, German, Spanish, Lithuanian, Romanian, Estonian, Wales, and Esperanto. He particularly likes Estonian, because it is rich in vowels.

Tammet is capable of learning new languages ​​very quickly. To prove it, Tammet was challenged Channel Five (a TV channel) to learn Icelandic in one week. 7 days later he appeared on Icelandic television conversing in Icelandic. Until-until, Tammet language instructor saying it was man who does not like humans.

Inventors Law of Archimedes

Inventors Law of Archimedes - Law of Archimedes invented by the ancient Greek physicist named Archimedes. Archimedes was born in 287 BC in Syracaus, Sicilia Greek colony. Archimedes' father was an astronomer named Pheidias. Archimedes school in Alexandria. Archimedes who first made ​​the discovery while still in school, which found a kind of screw that can lift water from the Nile.

Law of Archimedes discovered while soaking in the bath tub. Originally Archimedes was given the task of King Syracaus is Herion II to assure honesty maker crown.

The weight ratio of water displaced by the crown when the crown sinks give an idea to the Archimedes currently known as the density of objects. Until now the law of Archimedes still used in the manufacture of ships, aircraft, and other equipment related to the density of objects.

Inventors Law of Archimedes

It is told that during the war the Romans, Archimedes designed a concave mirror to concentrate sunlight and directed to a Roman warship to burn.

It is said that Archimedes once said that Archimedes Archimedes could lift the earth if given a fulcrum and a lever long.

Archimedes findings seen on a tanker ship that is moving the weight of sea water in order to float on the surface of the ocean and its cargo in the form of oil lighter than the weight of sea water.