TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eisenstein,Elizabeth L
TI  - The printing press as an agent of change: communications and cultural transformations in early modern Europe 
SN  - 0521220440
AV  - Z124 .E37
U1  - 686.2 
PY  - 1979///
CY  - Cambridge [Eng.], New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Printing
KW  - Influence
KW  - Reformation
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - Technology and civilization
KW  - Civilization
KW  - history
KW  - Europe
KW  - Technology
N1  - Bibliography: p. 709-767; Pt.1. Introduction to an elusive transformation.  The unacknowledged revolution -- Defining the initial shift ; some features of print culture -- Pt.2. 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 -- Pt.3. 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
ER  -