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During the 16th and 17th centuries scholars believed that the amount of published books was becoming too much to handle. This abundance of book shifted from the early Middle Ages, when books were scarcer and readers focused on intensive reading. Because of the abundance of books during the 16th and 17th centuries, styles of selective reading and note taking developed to address the issue of too many books, too little time. This can be considered the shift when extensive reading versus intensive…

The design idea we had was modified several times. Initially the fingers that were constructed for the hand seemed to work and look fine in our Solidworks assembly. We did not want the fingers to be too large as the girl were were designing the hand for is only seven years old. However, after printing them, we quickly realized that they were far too small to be able to exert the force to grasp a water bottle. Furthermore, because they were so small, it was difficult for the 3D printer to print…

Midterm Essay Looking back when we were in high school they always said how we are being censored. Sure they put censorship on computers but that is for good reasons because we don’t need teens being distracted by Facebook and Youtube. But some of the things they do censor is history and we find that it is not right to do so. Some books are banned in schools or have been revised to take out bad language or things they don’t want our minds to see how we were back in the day when no one cared if…

printing press revolutionized the way humans communicate their thoughts and ideas during the Renaissance. Before the printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg, the production speed of literary works was not very fast because they were hand-written by scribes and for them to finish a small book would take months of hard work. The ideas spread through these works were only about religion because the labor that is put in these were constrained by the church. When the printing press was…

The art of lithography and chromolithography is one that has particularly strong roots in America. Originally used to illustrate news articles and books, the lithograph eventually covered and grew to symbolize many areas of growing American consumerism: from business and commercial prints and trade cards to domestic art portraying the nineteenth-century American domestic ideal; as well as popular romantic images of the time. Lithographs were present in nineteenth-century America in many forms,…

Sabrina Kim; Period 4B; Chapter 1 Section 2 The Renaissance of Northern Europe was accelerated by the invention of the printing press by Johann Gutenberg in 1455. The invention of such tool facilitated the reproduction of books, which meant that the surplus of books could be produced for wider audiences. People learned how to read and educated themselves on a variety of subjects, and soon the ardent thriving on arts and literature began. Prominent artists of the era included Albrecht Durer,…

The abacus Abdiel Gutierrez Abstract—This paper will show the importance of the abacist during the Renaissance time in Europe, and the importance of their mathematical advances they did to algebra. Normally they were merchants or people that taught the merchants in the operation of the abacus. They appear in Europe in the beginning of the 1400 century and lasted until the year 1600. Their work was very important for the developing of mathematics because they were the first ones to understand…

Distribution of Inappropriate Content At what point does published media cross the line of what is appropriate, to what is considered inappropriate? Why is some nudity socially accepted on some television shows, while it is frowned upon in others? Is blood and gore okay for children to view so long as it is a zombie, but not okay if it is coming from a gladiator? Everyone, from birth to death, is exposed to unwanted media. Be it foul language, nudity, adult content, or something else, unwanted…

You use it nearly every day, whether it be to pay for dinner or to write your grocery list on but who invented this? In 105 AD Cai Lun was credited for the invention of paper, an object that would become the foundation in regards to the success of China and nations as a whole. Cai Lun made the biggest impact on society due to making paper convenient, with paper, historical documents could be written, and finally, paper is widely used in today’s society. Cai Lun thought of the idea of inventing…

until this era type had been designed to serve one purpose only. That purpose was to be used for long stretches of texts, for books. However, with the invention of mechanical technology and major innovations in printing technology (e.g. the Steam Press, 1814), advertisers in particular were looking for a type that stood out from crowd. They wanted a type that yelled, look at me! Thus was born the display face—type for use at large sizes, for short bursts of copy. Those posters were a riot of…