The printing press as an agent of change: communications and cultural transformations in early-modern Europe : volumes I and II

Introduction to an elusive transformation. The unacknowledged revolution

Defining the initial shift, some features of print culture

Classical and Christian traditions reoriented, Renaissance and Reformation reappraised. A classical revival reoriented: the two phases of the Renaissance

The scriptural tradition recast: resetting the stage for the Reformation

The book of nature transformed. Introduction: problems of periodization

Technical literature goes to press: some new trends in scientific writing and research

Resetting the stage for the Copernican revolution

Sponsorship and censorship of scientific publication

Conclusion. Scripture and nature transformed.