Germany in the World Quotes

“This copper engraving by Matthäus Merian the Elder from 1632 depicts a printing workshop. Merian is best known for his townscapes, but here it is the interior world of books that receives his attention. Printing was the German art and it was Germans who introduced it almost everywhere”
― David Blackbourn, Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000

“The scale of the change was stunning. Not much more than half a century after Gutenberg’s Bible, around 1500, there were already 20 million books in the world. By the second half of the seventeenth century, about 6 or 7 million new books were published every year, making a total”
― David Blackbourn, Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000