#676. Monday Post (11 Dec 2017) – De Laude iPhone
By pascaljappy | Monday Post
In 1492, German Renaissance abbot Johannes Trithemius took a break from his numerous fields of research to write his “De Laure Scriptorum” (in praise of scribes) letter, to defend the (then) dying breed of scribes, whose expertise (knowing how to read and write) had been battered into redundancy for decades by one Johannes Gutenberg. The […]
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