Session 6 April 11

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• Session 6 - April 11
• The Origins of Writing
• Video The Day the Universe changed (Part 2)
• BREAK
• Lecture on Print
• How to Study for the Test

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• The Origins of Writing
• Pictographic origins (Mesopotamia, Egypt,
  Greece, etc.)
• Phonographic elements
• Economic (accounting, economic booms)
• Political (administration, control)

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• The Day the Universe Changed (Part II)
• What were social and political consequences of
  the invention of print?
• What were epistemological consequences of the
  invention of print?

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BREAK
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• Print Origin and Consequences
• Development of the technology
• Wood carvings
• Earlier forms of print moveable type in China
  (ca. 1045)http//www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/6097
  /files/china-printing.html
• The first assembley line alphabetic letterpress
  Germany (1450)http//www.gutenberg.de/erfindun.ht
  mhttp//www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/dframes/inde
  x.htm

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• Print Origin and Consequences
• Consequences of the new technology
• 1.Epistemological
• The visual becomes the paradigm of truth
• 2.Social
• Reformation
• Industrial Revolution
• Individualism
• Reformation