Era
Early modern
Printing & the Spread of Knowledge
Mechanized printing slashed the cost of books and transformed scholarship, religion, and politics.
Key figures
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Aldus Manutius
Related timeline events
- c. 105 CE — Paper refined in Han China →
- c. 1440 — Movable type printing in Europe →
- 1450s — Gutenberg Bible printed →
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