printing press as an agent of change
Subtitle: communications and cultural transformations in early modern Europe, volumes I and II
By: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein.
Edition: 1st pbk ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 794
Subjects: Printing -- Influence; Reformation; Renaissance; Technology and civilization
Notes: "Complete in one volume."

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 709-767.
Table of contents: title: Pt.1. Introduction to an elusive transformation.  The unacknowledged revolution; title: Defining the initial shift ; some features of print culture; title: Pt.2. Classical and Christian traditions reoriented ; Renaissance and Reformation reappraised; title: A classical revival reoriented : the two phases of the Renaissance; title: The scriptural tradition recast : resetting the stage for the Reformation; title: Pt.3. The book of nature transformed.  Introduction ; problems of periodization; title: Technical literature goes to press : some new trends in scientific writing and research; title: Resetting the stage for the Copernican Revolution; title: Sponsorship and censorship of scientific publication; title: Conclusion : Scripture and nature transformed.