On Cannons and Printing
De bombardis: ac item de typographia
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18920796First Translation
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches of scholarly catalogs, Google Books, and Open Library for Christoph Besold's 1620 Latin dissertation 'De Bombardis: Ac item De Typographia' (and its English title 'On Cannons and Printing') yielded no evidence of an existing English translation. This type of specialized 17th-century academic Latin text is rarely translated into English.
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What do the 'artificial lightning' of the cannon and the 'beautiful art' of the printing press have in common? Christoph Besold explores how accidental alchemical failures and incremental mechanical breakthroughs birthed the two most disruptive technologies in human history. Discover a world where gunpowder was a 'plague' and the first printed books were mistaken for supernatural deceptions.
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