Was Johannes Gutenberg left-handed?
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It doesn't appear that there's any report about Gutenberg not being right-handed.
I tried several sites reporting famous left-handers, and couldn't find Gutenberg on anyone's list (not even Steve Gutenberg). The most extensive seems to be kept by the University of Indiana (although I don't know how well-curated it is. It appears to take public submissions, which is scary).
As one of this site's (many) resident left-handers, I feel compelled to make a few points here:
- A handwriting sample could show left-handedness, but it can't prove right-handedness. For many of us, our writing just looks like really sloppy right-handed writing. This goes particularly for people of the late middle ages, when left-handedness was often suppressed.
- I can't write in reverse. My wife is also left-handed, and if she can do that its a skill she's kept impressively well-hidden for the last 30+ years. Da Vinci's ability to write reverse doesn't show anything special about left-handers, but rather that Da Vinci was an extraordinary genius.
- Something doesn't need to have been created by left-handers to end up left-biased. The most famous example is the QWERTY keyboard layout, which ended up left-biased as a side effect of being designed to prevent jams in rotating arm-style typewriters.
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