Luther Bible via Robot Arm
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. This is gorgeous. A robotic scribe. Link (via).
They really need a bunch of these working silently by candlelight for the full effect.
The choice of Luther’s Bible for this project is interesting, as its importance is due to its content (the first translation into German, akin to the King James Bible in English) rather than the technology used to print it. The obvious choice for a project that showcases printing would have been Gutenberg’s 42-line Bible, or even a genuine hand-lettered Bible… I wish I could read enough of the German to figure out what the impetus behind the project was.