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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth L Eisenstein |
| ISBN: | 9780521845434 0521845432 9780521607742 0521607744 |
| OCLC Number: | 57641550 |
| Description: | xix, 384 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | I: The emergence of print culture in the West -- An unacknowledged revolution -- Defining the initial shift -- Some features of print culture -- The expanding republic of letters -- II: Interaction with other developments -- The permanent renaissance: mutation of a classical revival -- Western Christendom disrupted: resetting the stage for the reformation -- The book of nature transformed: printing and the rise of modern science -- Scripture and nature transformed. |
| Responsibility: | Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. |
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Abstract:
After summarising the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, Elizabeth Eisenstein discusses how printing effected three major revolutions - the Renaissance, the Reformation and the rise of modern science.
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- Printing -- Europe -- History.
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- Technology and civilization.
- Boekdrukkunst.
- Imprimerie -- Europe -- Histoire.
- Technologie et civilisation.
- Europe -- Vie intellectuelle.
- Drucktechnik.
- Gesellschaft.
- Entwicklung.
- Europa.
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