• Vast Increase in Amount of Written Material
• Not just books- broadsides, notices; selling Indulgences
• New access to visuals- revolutionary!
• Maps, diagrams, portraits; paintings/graphics
• Interest in fixed spatio-temporal view; maps with boundaries
• New devices could be created
• New Access to scientific tables- revolutionary!
• Codifying and cataloging data
• Tables could end inaccurate copying- new science
• New Conservatism- why?
• 'When technology went to press, so did the backlog'
• New Mystification- what was good knowledge
• Older texts held in higher esteem than new
• New Typography enhances scholarship- Greek, Arabic, Latin
• Collating- what was the original text?
• Comparing all the old, corrupted texts together
• Come up with the best 'original' text again!
• Printing presses changes control of information
• New producers- beyond the control of old authorities
• New nations- single language, can control the press
• New audiences- religion still key in getting people to read!
• New Interest in Person
• They can be pictured, have a story written
• Private Reading creates private lives?

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