HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Syllabary, Printing, Walter J. Ong
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The printing revolution: printing in 1454: printing technology spread over europe and played a central role in the renaissance, the protestant. Reformation, the enlightenment, and the political, industrial, and scienti c revolutions from the 1600s to the. Walter ong noted that writing and printing introduced a more linear, sequential and homogenous approach to thinking, in contrast to the older oral cultures of heroic epics, songs, and tales told by relight. Complex logographic systems like chinese, or japanese, have characters that stand for syllables alphabetic individual characters stand for phonemes of the spoken language written language in alphabets can communicate billions of ideas with only about two dozen symbols. Exible, but expensive royalty paper discovers by ts"ai lun, a chinese monk who observed paper wasps making a nest around 105 ce. He continued to experiment with metal types and presses during the time, and may have printed several updated works such as a latin grammar and an astronomical calendar.