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Effects Of The Printing Press

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European Renaissance The printing press drastically improved the advancement of the sciences, spreading the information far and wide. It was indeed a product of the Renaissance, and being such, “the press served the interests of humanists by making available many ancient Greco-Roman classics, such as the works of Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Virgil, previously rare or unavailable in western Christendom.” The humanistic ideals of the Renaissance were printed and spread across Europe, “fostering a new spirit of artistic independence.” This resurgence of the classics in print form led to new classics to be written and printed, for example, “in England, the Renaissance plays of William Shakespeare were published at the time of their …show more content…

The printing press not only influenced the Renaissance, but it also influenced the Age of Enlightenment, which is a direct transition of the ideas of the Renaissance, but were used to challenge the Church.
Age of Enlightenment The impact of the printing press on science and technology was tremendous. Before the press, scientists had worked in relative isolation. With the printing press came the publishing of their results, which accelerated the rate of scientific discovery.
Many of these advances directly impacted the quality of life for large groups of people through improved medicine, domestic and agricultural technology, and transportation. The birth of the modern scientific revolution can be directly linked to early printed works by Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton, with his Principia (1687) as the crowning achievement of this early phase.
Printing books provided a means that scientists could use to record, arrange, and preserve the knowledge they’d been studying. Now, scientists could join their research and ideas with their predecessors, which would further advance their own.
In many ways, the social impact of Gutenberg’s printing press culminated with the Enlightenment—it changed the way Europeans communicated. The printing press “made it possible to bypass the confusion engendered by linguistic

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