Comments on: The Atlas of Early Printing

The Atlas of Early Printing

Greg Nog — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:25:31 -0800

The Atlas of Early Printing. A visualization of fifteenth-century printing presses in Europe. Click around, look at the book-learnin' blossom!

By: jammy

jammy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:31:53 -0800

oh my. how very cool. thanks, Greg Nog!

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:37:43 -0800

ooooo. This is good.

By: heyho

heyho — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:47:05 -0800

Damn, that's cool.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:51:29 -0800

The "animate range of years" function brings much more meaning to all those dots. Cool post! Also: no acknowledgment to the aliens who brought the technology here in the first place? Bokhziog the Maleficent will not be pleased.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:22:14 -0800

Goddamn it Greg, you've blown my productivity.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:31:19 -0800

Amazing. Thanks very much for the post. The "animate range of years" function brings much more meaning to all those dots. So it does, and thanks for mentioning it, because I hadn't noticed it.

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:38:25 -0800

An interesting point this makes is how much technical and cultural development in XV century Europe went along a North-South axis roughly equivalent to the old Lotharingian kingdom (dominated by Burgundy in those days). It also shows how much of a backwater the British Isles were... (although the "conflict" map seems to seriously underrepresent wars in the Continent during that period: no wars in the Iberian peninsula in the XV century? Really??)

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:46:55 -0800

Fairs!

By: Postroad

Postroad — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:35:56 -0800

Pleasant and clever timeline thing but it tells us little or nothing about the actual printing process, the use of type, copy, corrections, paper used, binding etc, which finally becomes important for the sort of thing that was so well studied by Fredson Bowers of Univ of Virginia and is now more readily done by computer analysis.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:58:10 -0800

Did you check out the links at the top?

By: pised

pised — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:42:08 -0800

WOW.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:24:02 -0800

That's the worst RTS game I've ever played. Going back to check out the links at the top that I missed!

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:27:52 -0800

Just realized this is my home state! And not too terrible far away. I think I'm going to get me a library card and check out this book. Cool post.

By: the_very_hungry_caterpillar

the_very_hungry_caterpillar — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:01:52 -0800

great post, thanks.

By: Sukiari

Sukiari — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:09:46 -0800

Nothing about China? They've been printing a hell of a lot longer than any European.