Think only, he had said, about the change across the world between 1520 and 2020. It was hard to imagine. Magellan had just become the first to cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Vast, vast tracts of the Earth were still unexplored. Martin Luther had posted his theses only three years prior. You could bump into Renaissance greats in the right cafe. The David, Mona Lisa, and the roof of the Sistine Chapel were considered modern art. With intrepid sleuthing, you could buy or at least find a copy of Gutenberg’s Bible, fresh off his printing press, only a few decades old.
