The Printing Press as an Agent of ChangeOriginally published in two volumes in 1980, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is now issued in a paperback edition containing both volumes. The work is a full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change. Professor Eisenstein begins by examining the general implications of the shift from script to print, and goes on to examine its part in three of the major movements of early modern times - the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science. |
Contents
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Defining the initial shift some features of print culture | 43 |
CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS | 161 |
resetting the stage for | 303 |
truths recast 329 4 Resetting the stage for the Reformation 367 | 367 |
Catholic south to Protestant north 403 7 Aspects of the new book | 422 |
Introduction problems of periodization | 453 |
some new trends | 520 |
science 543 3 Galenic science revived and surpassed | 566 |
Resetting the stage for the Copernican Revolution | 575 |
Sponsorship and censorship of scientific publication | 636 |
Scripture and nature transformed | 683 |
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