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Books and Science in the Middle Ages 561 Section 96. Why did Roger Bacon criticize the enthusiasm for Aristotle? What great inventions did he foresee? What great new discoveries were made in the thirteenth century? What effects did the introduction of gunpowder have? How were books made before the invention of printing? What are the dis- advantages of a book copied by hand? What is the earliest large printed book? How rapidly did printing spread? What do you consider the chief effects of the introduction of printing? Section 97. Say something of the chief artists of the Renais- sance in Italy and their work. Name some of the artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who lived outside of Italy.
