Printing and the Renaissance [Illustrated]

A PAPER READ BEFORE THE FORTNIGHTLY CLUB OF ROCHESTER NEW YORK

This edition features
• illustrations

Excerpt
PRINTING did not make the Renaissance; the Renaissance made printing. Printing did not begin the publication and dissemination of books. There were libraries of vast extent in ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome. There were universities centuries before Gutenberg where the few instructed the many in the learning treasured up in books, and where both scholars and prof…