Ink and Lead: How Printers Changed the World – Ksenia Chepikova – Publishing house "Tion" – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-908027-55-7
Ink and Lead: How Printers Changed the World
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Ink and Lead: How Printers Changed the World
14.99 €
What if one of history's greatest revolutions began with failure? Gutenberg created a technology that transformed humanity—and lost his own printing press. The man who invented italic type found himself embroiled in a fierce struggle for control of his invention. One printing press distributed the Bible and the works of great scholars, another the Hammer of Witches. And the first book in Cyrillic didn't appear there, or thanks to the man most consider the first Russian printer.
Why are new ideas almost always born alongside money, ambition, scandal, and the struggle for influence? Who decided which books would see the light of day and which would disappear? How did printers, publishers, adventurers, and entrepreneurs change religion, science, politics—and even human thinking itself?
Here is a history of printing that has nothing "dusty" about it. Here, people are sued, cheated, ruined, risk fortunes, end up in prison, steal ideas, and make discoveries whose consequences are felt five or even hundreds of years later. After all, the printing press became for its time what the internet is for ours: a machine capable of instantly changing the world.
Why are new ideas almost always born alongside money, ambition, scandal, and the struggle for influence? Who decided which books would see the light of day and which would disappear? How did printers, publishers, adventurers, and entrepreneurs change religion, science, politics—and even human thinking itself?
Here is a history of printing that has nothing "dusty" about it. Here, people are sued, cheated, ruined, risk fortunes, end up in prison, steal ideas, and make discoveries whose consequences are felt five or even hundreds of years later. After all, the printing press became for its time what the internet is for ours: a machine capable of instantly changing the world.
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