Explorations: Animal Farm: Printing and Writing: The history and importance of printing (part two)

Duration: 14 mins 45 secs
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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

At Robert Smail's printing press in southern Scotland, Alan Macfarlane in conversation with Ed Nicol describes further some of the effects of the printing revolution on human knowledge and society in western Europe and the different type of printing that evolved in Japan and China.
 
Created: 2018-03-11 17:10
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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