Tech progress: a 1465 printing press vs. scribes
Renaissance historian Boris von Brauchitsch writes: “Whereas 45 scribes had once required 22 months to copy 200 books for Cosimo de’ Medici, the two German priests who set up Italy’s first printing press in the Benedictine cloister of Subiaco in 1465 were able to turn out 12,000 volumes in only five years.” (Brauchitsch, Boris von. […]
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