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AFTER CERTAINTY

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Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Historian arguing the printing press remade knowledge authority and European culture.

Why this matters

Eisenstein shows how a medium shift reallocates who may fix and circulate certainty.

Focus in observatory

Works

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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. *The Printing Press as an Agent of Change*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

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