Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 794 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
Edition:
1980
ISBN:
9781107049963
Content:
Originally 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
Content:
Introduction to an elusive transformation. The unacknowledged revolution; Defining the initial shift, some features of print culture. -- Classical and Christian traditions reoriented, Renaissance and Reformation reappraised. A classical revival reoriented: the two phases of the Renaissance; The scriptural tradition recast: resetting the stage for the Reformation. -- The book of nature transformed. Introduction: problems of periodization; Technical literature goes to press: some new trends in scientific writing and research; Resetting the stage for the Copernican revolution; Sponsorship and censorship of scientific publication. -- Conclusion. Scripture and nature transformed
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521299558
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., 1923 - 2016 The printing press as an agent of change Cambrigde : Cambridge University Press, 1979 ISBN 0521220440
Language:
English
Keywords:
Buchdruck
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Kulturwandel
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107049963
URL:
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Author information:
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. 1923-2016
