How the Invention of the printing press helped develop the renaissance
What is the printing press
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How did it work
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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
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