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Wtrettien: /* An Unacknowledged Revolution */

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	* explains why monks should not stop copying because of invention of printing		* explains why monks should not stop copying because of invention of printing
	* argues writing on parchment will have longer life than printing on paper		* argues writing on parchment will have longer life than printing on paper
	* "his argument show his concern about preserving a form of manual labor which seemed ~~especiallys uitable~~ for monks." (11)		* "his argument show his concern about preserving a form of manual labor which seemed especially suitable for monks." (11)

	== Defining the Initial Shift ==		== Defining the Initial Shift ==

Wtrettien: /* An Unacknowledged Revolution */

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An Unacknowledged Revolution

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	Johannes Trithemius, ''De laude scriptorum'' (1492)		Johannes Trithemius, ''De laude scriptorum'' (1492)
	* explains why ~~mongs~~ should not stop copying because of invention of printing		* explains why monks should not stop copying because of invention of printing
	* argues writing on parchment will have longer life than printing on paper		* argues writing on parchment will have longer life than printing on paper
	* "his argument show his concern about preserving a form of manual labor which seemed especiallys uitable for monks." (11)		* "his argument show his concern about preserving a form of manual labor which seemed especiallys uitable for monks." (11)

Wtrettien: /* The Book of Nature Transformed: Printing and the Rise of Modern Science */

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The Book of Nature Transformed: Printing and the Rise of Modern Science

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	Royal Societ;, Oldenburg and Malpighi -- Malpighi could print in England what he was unable to print in Italy (241-2)		Royal Societ;, Oldenburg and Malpighi -- Malpighi could print in England what he was unable to print in Italy (241-2)

	== Conclusion =="Attention focused on a communications shift encourages us to relate mind to society and at the same time avoid forcing connections between economic class and intellectual superstructure in order to fit a prefabricated scheme." (261)		== Conclusion ==

			"Attention focused on a communications shift encourages us to relate mind to society and at the same time avoid forcing connections between economic class and intellectual superstructure in order to fit a prefabricated scheme." (261)

	:"A new confidence in the accuracy of mathematical constructions, figures, and numbers was predicated on a method of duplication that transcended older limits imposed by time and space and that presented identical data in identical form to men who were otherwise divided by cultural and geographical frontiers." (269)		:"A new confidence in the accuracy of mathematical constructions, figures, and numbers was predicated on a method of duplication that transcended older limits imposed by time and space and that presented identical data in identical form to men who were otherwise divided by cultural and geographical frontiers." (269)

Wtrettien at 17:01, 25 September 2010

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 :"If there was a 'run-away' tecnology which was leading to a sense of cultural crisis among historians, perhaps it had '''more to do with an increased rate of publication than with new audiovisual media?''' While mulling over this question and wondering whether it was wise to turn out more monographs or instruct graduate students to do the sme -- given the indigestible abundance now confronting us and the diffuclty of assimilating what we have -- I ran across a copy of Marshall McLuhan's ''The Gutenberg Galaxy.'' ... It provided additional evidence of how overload could lead to incoherence. At the same time it also stimulated my curiosity ... about the specific historical consequences of the c15 communications shift." (x)
 :* ''interesting question to begin text with!''
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 :"Much as was the case with mundane events when they were woven into tapestries or noted in monkish chronicles, diverse separate events merged into a single mythical category; conventional images and standard formulas smudged carefully observed detail. Jerusalem stayed at the center of the world, comets stayed below the lunar sphere, and neither could be permanently dislodged from their appointed places until scribal transmission had come to an end." (210)

Wtrettien: /* The Book of Nature Transformed: Printing and the Rise of Modern Science */

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	Copernicus and Tycho Brahe		Copernicus and Tycho Brahe

			:"Much as was the case with mundane events when they were woven into tapestries or noted in monkish chronicles, diverse separate events merged into a single mythical category; conventional images and standard formulas smudged carefully observed detail. Jerusalem stayed at the center of the world, comets stayed below the lunar sphere, and neither could be permanently dislodged from their appointed places until scribal transmission had come to an end." (210)

Wtrettien: /* The Book of Nature Transformed: Printing and the Rise of Modern Science */

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	:"The large library, George Sarton observed, is just as much a scientific instrument as is the telescope or cyclotron. Laboratory facilities were lacking to sixteenth-century observers. Star gazers still had to rely only on their 'naked' eyes. But the flower of information had been reoriented, and this had an effect on natural philosophy that should not go ignored." (202)		:"The large library, George Sarton observed, is just as much a scientific instrument as is the telescope or cyclotron. Laboratory facilities were lacking to sixteenth-century observers. Star gazers still had to rely only on their 'naked' eyes. But the flower of information had been reoriented, and this had an effect on natural philosophy that should not go ignored." (202)

			Copernicus and Tycho Brahe

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	tension within Royal Society publications -- turning away from books vs. using books to spread message (195)		tension within Royal Society publications -- turning away from books vs. using books to spread message (195)

			maps -- "Before the outlines of a comprehensive and uniform world picture could emerge, incongruous images had to be duplicated in sufficient quantities to be brought into contact, compared, and contrasted." (202)
			* novelty of Ortelius's ''Theatrum'' -- "collaborative ventur[e] in large-scale data collection" (202)

			:"The large library, George Sarton observed, is just as much a scientific instrument as is the telescope or cyclotron. Laboratory facilities were lacking to sixteenth-century observers. Star gazers still had to rely only on their 'naked' eyes. But the flower of information had been reoriented, and this had an effect on natural philosophy that should not go ignored." (202)

Wtrettien: /* The Book of Nature Transformed: Printing and the Rise of Modern Science */

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	'''medieval use of Book of Nature metaphor''': monastic discipline, ascetic advantages of hard work in the fields (187)		'''medieval use of Book of Nature metaphor''': monastic discipline, ascetic advantages of hard work in the fields (187)

			tendency to think of empiricists as turning away from books to read the Book of Nature -- but not true according to Eisenstein

			:"it would be wrong to assume that a rejection fo technical literature paved the way for the rise of modern science. It was not the burning of books but the printing of them that provided the indispensable step." (194)

			:"insistence on going directly to the "book of nature" soon took on the very attributes it was intended to repel. It became a ritualistic literary formula, devoid of real meaning." (194)

			tension within Royal Society publications -- turning away from books vs. using books to spread message (195)

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	== The Book of Nature Transformed: Printing and the Rise of Modern Science ==		== The Book of Nature Transformed: Printing and the Rise of Modern Science ==

			'''medieval use of Book of Nature metaphor''': monastic discipline, ascetic advantages of hard work in the fields (187)

Wtrettien: /* Western Christendom Disrupted: Resetting the Stage for the Reformation */

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Western Christendom Disrupted: Resetting the Stage for the Reformation

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	Plantin, "Family of Love" (175-6)		Plantin, "Family of Love" (175-6)

			polyglot Bibles, changing social relations in printer's/scholar's circles (179ff); "families", ''Concordia Mundi''
			:"To look over the connections revealed in this correspondence is to see laid bare the central nervous system or chief switchboard of the Republic of Letters in its formative phase." (182)

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