Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author 1500-1750

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Nicole Howard, Professor of History at Eastern Oregon University, will speak on her new book, Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author 1500-1750 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). She will explore how, during the early modern era, some scientific authors disliked and distrusted the newly invented printing press, to […]

Virtual Tour: Howard Iron Works Printing Museum Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Sunday, July 24, 1 pm Pacific Time “The most powerful machine ever developed by man was not the nuclear reactor nor the computer. It was the Printing press, without which neither would have seen the light of day”—Nick Howard. The Howard Iron Works Museum and Restoration facility was […]