The Printing Revolution: How the Press Changed Europe

Within fifty years of Gutenberg, presses ran in about two hundred European cities and books cost a third of what they had. This path explains what Gutenberg actually built and why printing was a risky business, how Luther and the early scientists used the new medium, where historians still disagree, and what economists found when they measured print's effect on city growth and the Reformation. You finish able to tell a well-evidenced claim about a new medium from a story that merely fits the timing.