Quick Historiography of the Western Word

• Oral to Literate Culture

  400 BC Athenian Archives
  
  

• Literate to Publishing Culture

  1455 Gutenberg Bible
  
  1702 - Daily Courant (London’s First Newspaper)
  1755 - Johnson’s Dictionary

Lucien Febvre

The coming of the book : the impact of printing 1450-1800

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