The Printing Press as an Agent of Change Quotes

“When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed.”
― Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Trans

“Whether the sixteenth century astronomer confronted materials derived from the fourth century B.C. or freshly composed in the fourteenth century A.D., or whether he was more! receptive to scholastic or humanist currents of thoughts, seems of less significance in this particular connection than the fact that all manners of diverse materials were being seen in the course of one life time by one pair of eyes. For Copernicus as for Tycho, the result was heightened awareness and dissatisfaction with discrepancies in the inherent data”
― Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change : Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe; Volumes I and II

“Whether the sixteenth century astronomer confronted materials derived from the fourth century B.C. or
freshly composed in the fourteenth century A.D., or whether he was more! receptive to scholastic or humanist currents of thoughts, seems of less significance in this particular connection than the fact that all manners of diverse materials were being seen in the course of one life time by one pair of eyes. For
Copernicus as for Tycho, the result was heightened awareness and dissatisfaction with discrepancies in the inherent data”
― Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change : Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe; Volumes I and II