How the Invention of the printing press helped develop the renaissance

What is the printing press


How did it work

The biography of the printing press



  • 1440 - First display 
  • 1451 - Latin-Text Book Arts Minor
  • 1455 - The Bible
  • 1468 - Death of its inventor
  • 1475 - First English language book
  • 1501 - Catholic church tries to censor printed matter
  • 1520 - The reformation
  • 1543 - Publication of the Astronomical Theories
  • 1556 - City State of Venice publishes a newletter
  • 1605 - First Newspaper published
  • 1690 - Publication of the first American Newspaper

The Geographical expansion of the printing press

Mayence:1453
Bamberg:1458
Strasbourg:1460
Cologne:1466
Rome:1467
Venise:1469
Milan, Genova, Naples, and Florence:1471

The printIng press and the catholic church


  • The correlation between the invention of the printing press and the decline in catholic followers
  • The spread of Protestantism 
  • Hiding Coernicus' work

How the Invention of the printing press helped develop the renaissance

By simonpastor

How the Invention of the printing press helped develop the renaissance

  • 705