THE GEOGRAPHY OF 15TH CENTURY PRINTING
Printing places of incunabula, showing the spread of printing in the 15th century. 271 locations are known, the largest of them are designated by name on the map. The data is based on the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue of @britishlibrary.
Printing places of incunabula, showing the spread of printing in the 15th century. 271 locations are known, the largest of them are designated by name on the map. The data is based on the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue of @britishlibrary.
This map was developed by NordNordWest, and is available via Wikimedia Commons here:
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This map shows the spread of movable type printing in 15th century Europe. Books were of course printed - by woodblock and/or movable type - in China, Korea, Tibet, Mongolia and Japan well before this.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF 15TH CENTURY PRINTING
This map shows the countries of Europe, color-coded according to the date of the first printing press established on their territory.
This map shows the countries of Europe, color-coded according to the date of the first printing press established on their territory.
Source:
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THE GEOGRAPHY OF 15TH CENTURY PRINTING
The spread of the printing press through Europe, snapshots every decade from 1450 to 1500.
The spread of the printing press through Europe, snapshots every decade from 1450 to 1500.
A potentially interesting animation of the global spread of printing from 1400 onwards, but severely marred by the bizarre and inexplicable complete omission of early Chinese and East Asian printing.
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