The Atlas of Early Printing
September 19, 2008 8:25 AM Subscribe
The Atlas of Early Printing. A visualization of fifteenth-century printing presses in Europe. Click around, look at the book-learnin' blossom!
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The "animate range of years" function brings much more meaning to all those dots. Cool post!
Also: no acknowledgment to the aliens who brought the technology here in the first place? Bokhziog the Maleficent will not be pleased.
posted by not_on_display at 8:51 AM on September 19, 2008
Also: no acknowledgment to the aliens who brought the technology here in the first place? Bokhziog the Maleficent will not be pleased.
posted by not_on_display at 8:51 AM on September 19, 2008
Goddamn it Greg, you've blown my productivity.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:22 AM on September 19, 2008
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:22 AM on September 19, 2008
Amazing. Thanks very much for the post.
The "animate range of years" function brings much more meaning to all those dots.
So it does, and thanks for mentioning it, because I hadn't noticed it.
posted by languagehat at 9:31 AM on September 19, 2008
The "animate range of years" function brings much more meaning to all those dots.
So it does, and thanks for mentioning it, because I hadn't noticed it.
posted by languagehat at 9:31 AM on September 19, 2008
An interesting point this makes is how much technical and cultural development in XV century Europe went along a North-South axis roughly equivalent to the old Lotharingian kingdom (dominated by Burgundy in those days). It also shows how much of a backwater the British Isles were... (although the "conflict" map seems to seriously underrepresent wars in the Continent during that period: no wars in the Iberian peninsula in the XV century? Really??)
posted by Skeptic at 9:38 AM on September 19, 2008
posted by Skeptic at 9:38 AM on September 19, 2008
Fairs!
posted by cowbellemoo at 9:46 AM on September 19, 2008
posted by cowbellemoo at 9:46 AM on September 19, 2008
Pleasant and clever timeline thing but it tells us little or nothing about the actual printing process, the use of type, copy, corrections, paper used, binding etc, which finally becomes important for the sort of thing that was so well studied by Fredson Bowers of Univ of Virginia and is now more readily done by computer analysis.
posted by Postroad at 10:35 AM on September 19, 2008
posted by Postroad at 10:35 AM on September 19, 2008
That's the worst RTS game I've ever played.
Going back to check out the links at the top that I missed!
posted by cjorgensen at 1:24 PM on September 19, 2008
Going back to check out the links at the top that I missed!
posted by cjorgensen at 1:24 PM on September 19, 2008
Just realized this is my home state! And not too terrible far away. I think I'm going to get me a library card and check out this book.
Cool post.
posted by cjorgensen at 1:27 PM on September 19, 2008
Cool post.
posted by cjorgensen at 1:27 PM on September 19, 2008
great post, thanks.
posted by the_very_hungry_caterpillar at 2:01 PM on September 19, 2008
posted by the_very_hungry_caterpillar at 2:01 PM on September 19, 2008
Nothing about China?
They've been printing a hell of a lot longer than any European.
posted by Sukiari at 11:09 PM on September 21, 2008
They've been printing a hell of a lot longer than any European.
posted by Sukiari at 11:09 PM on September 21, 2008
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thanks, Greg Nog!
posted by jammy at 8:31 AM on September 19, 2008