The Press That Started It
Stephen Daye’s 1638 press, the Bay Psalm Book, the Eliot Indian Bible in Wôpanâak — and the unbroken line from colonial type to MIT Press and arXiv. Cambridge has been publishing the new world for 388 years.
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Stephen Daye’s 1638 press, the Bay Psalm Book, the Eliot Indian Bible in Wôpanâak — and the unbroken line from colonial type to MIT Press and arXiv.
1607: Young Puritan minister (1607–1638) whose deathbed gift of his library and half his estate gave the new college his name.
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The Press That Started It is linked, through the graph, to First Printing Press in British America (1638) — historical event, 9 min walk away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.
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