CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Middle Ages, Woodblock Printing, Johannes Gutenberg
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The church and monopolies of knowledge by the 12 and 13 centuries Gunpowder, cannons, spectacles, a method for recovering time, new shipping and trade routes. Starting in the thirteenth century, new experimenters began for the rst time to refer to nature as if it were a machine that functioned according to discoverable measurable, mechanisms. Detour into the development of the printing press. 15th century europe, a german metallurgist names johannes gutenberg creates movable type out of metal holds. Print started a cosical, culture, political revolution because: Allowed for the rise of a middle class between aristocrats and peasants. Marked decline in the power of catholicism but as elizabeth eisenstein argues . Avaliable evidence does not suggest such a simple conclusion as the printing cree changed everything .
