According to S. H. Steinberg, the author of Five Hundred Years of Printing, the invention of the printing press and movable type not only caused radical changes in political, religious, economic and social events, but also caused important changes in printing and education, language, literature and philosophy.
Marshall McLuhan’s book on media theory, The Gutenberg Galaxy, has the subtitle The Making of Typographic Man. Marshall, with his distinctive approach, deals with the consequences of the printing revolution,which started with Gutenberg ...
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