# Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West

Elizabeth Eisenstein discusses five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers, based on her new book, "Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2011
- By: Library Of Congress. Center For The Book
- Genres: Science, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688621/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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