and much else” owe their existence to the printing press, said the BBC. The major intellectual movements that swept through Europe in the early modern era – the Renaissance, the Enlightenment ...

So when, in the mid-15th century, Gutenberg invented the printing press, it became so much more than a machine. Ideas could be replicated by the thousands, making it the first great equaliser of ...

The Renaissance saw a huge increase in drawings due to the expansion of the printing press and the related affordability of paper. Artists could then “afford to use paper in a wasteful way ...

The Renaissance was a period in history that ... An engraving showing a Gutenberg printing press. Before Johannes Gutenberg's invention, reproducing a book involved copying it by hand.