CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Incunable, Marshall Mcluhan, Protestant Reformation
17 Sep 2013
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Printing press argued as a prime mover in history: technology that influenced other technology, prototype for mass production, makes knowledge more widely available. Printing (along with other developments) marked the transition from the. The printing press standardized the form of numbers and produced instructional texts explaining their use. With the coming of the printing press, reproduction of texts became mechanized: art of calligraphy declines in favor of simple writing(no scribes) Printing brought forth a new class of intellectuals men of letters . Previously, those who produced knowledge worked under the church or acquired patron from nobility or the wealthy merchant class. The printer became a new kind of patron, one linked to a growing market economy. Indices were created to navigate texts that were previously navigated by auditory recall. Dictionaries, encyclopedias and grammar texts were on the rise. Printing affected literacy, religion, and education in colonial north america.
