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Within about fifty years of Gutenberg's press, Europe's printers produced an estimated twenty million books.

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Books printed before 1501 are called incunabula — 'from the cradle'. Estimates put them near twenty million copies from some 27,000 editions. Literacy, science and reform all accelerated in their wake.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Gutenberg'in matbaasından sonraki yaklaşık elli yılda, Avrupa'nın basımcıları tahminen yirmi milyon kitap üretti.

1501'den önce basılan kitaplara 'beşikten' anlamında incunabula denir. Tahminler, yaklaşık 27.000 baskıdan yirmi milyona yakın nüshaya işaret eder. Okuryazarlık, bilim ve reform bu selin ardından hız kazandı.

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