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”The Diffusion of Columbus's Letter through Europe, 14931497,” University of Southern Maine, Osher Map Library, usm.maine.edu/maps/web-doc.u.ment/1/5/sub-/5-the-diffusion-of-columbuss-letter-through-europe-1493-1497.

41 bringing artifacts and knowledge

Laurence Bergreen, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circ.u.mnavigation of the Globe (New York: William Morrow, 2004).

42 including the exciting new derivatives product: indulgences

Hans J. Hillerbrand, The Protestant Reformation, rev. ed. (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), pp. ixxiii, 6667.

43 but thousands of copies distributed to the public were printed in German

”How Luther Went Viral,” Economist, December 17, 2011.

44 more than a quarter of them written by Luther himself

Ibid.

45 beginning a wave of literacy that began in Northern Europe and moved southward

Tom Head, It's Your World, So Change It: Using the Power of the Internet to Create Social Change (Indianapolis, IN: Que, 2010), p. 115.

46 the printing press was denounced as ”the work of the Devil”

Charles Coffin, The Story of Liberty (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879), p. 77.

47 with the publication of Nicolaus Copernicus's Revolution of the Spheres

William T. Vollmann, Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (New York: Norton, 2006).

48 At the beginning of January 1776

”Jan 9, 1776: Thomas Paine Publishes Common Sense,” History.com, /this-day-in-history/thomas-paine-publishes-common-sense.