Gutenberg’s 15th-century invention of printing not only benefited humanity, but also harmed it at the same time, new research has claimed, as it may have led to the execution of up to 90,000 people in Europe. The study led by Kerice Doten-Snitker, a postdoctoral researcher on complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, was published in the journal Theory and Society. A publication by the website Interesting Engineering wrote that typography may have helped fuel the 300-year-old witch hunts on the old continent, with at least 12,000 trials officially recorded. Doten-Snitker argued that the invention of printing may have allowed the rapid spread of ideas about magic that were previously confined to small intellectual circles, such as religious scholars and local inquisitors. For the study, the scientists built on previous research, looking beyond broader economic and environmental factors. Among other things they focused on how new ideas about magic were spreading […]
Source: News Beast

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