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Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author, 1500-1750

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Why did so many early modern scientific authors dislike and distrust the printing press?

While there is no denying the importance of the printing press to the scientific and medical advances of the early modern era, a closer look at authorial attitudes toward this technology refutes simplistic interpretations of how print was viewed at the time. Rather than embracing the press, scientific authors often disliked and distrusted it. In many cases, they sought to avoid putting their work into pr...