How Printing Presses Ignited the First Information Revolution

reason.com/2025/11/18/the-first-information-revolution

In The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco describes a labyrinthine monastic library large enough to lose oneself in. The novelist didn't mention how many books filled its rooms, but John O. Ward of the University of Sydney worked out some straightforward calculations based on Eco's…

This story appeared on reason.com, 2025-11-18 18:30:50.
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