What would the modern world look like without the invention of

>>1788163
Catholic world order with Pope as god-king

>>1788163

Someone else would have invented it.

>>1788163

This is stupid fucking question because it changes everything.

>>1788163
Hand written internet.

>>1788163
Very legible

To be honest it would have stopped the spread of literacy and probably halted the enlightenment and industrial revolution indefinitly until it was invented

The 14th century scientific revolution would have been destroyed completely by the humanists and entirely forgotten. Galileo would never have found those old French textbooks. Science might have stayed in the classicistic rut it was in during the Renaissance indefinitely.

On the plus side Protestantism might have been avoided.

>>1791224
>The 14th century scientific revolution would have been destroyed completely by the humanists and entirely forgotten
Explain more.

>>1788163
Someone else would have "invented" it. Printing press corresponded to the necessity of having to publish lots of books, it was meeting a demand.

The reason why printing press isn't as old as the ink itself is because there wasn't enough demand for books and manuals, the catholic church going full autistic about preserving the tradition of Latin, hand-written bibles definitely wouldn't last forever.

On a side note, I always found it ironic they considered writing Bible in any other language than Latin to be heresy but original bible was in Greek and it was translated to Latin for common man in the first place.

>>1791257
Well starting in the late 13th and during the 14th century there was a movement in natural philosophy (medieval science) that can be considered an early scientific revolution, centered on the University of Paris, based on philosophical work previously done by scholastics primarily at Paris and Oxford. The two most groundbreaking natural philosophers of that time were John Buridan (who laid the foundation for classical mechanics) and Nicolas Oresme (who laid the foundation of calculus).

But the University of Paris got rekt in the Hundred Years War, and scholasticism disappeared from academia to be replaced with Italian Renaissance humanism. Humanists held ancient Greece and Rome as the only worthwhile civilisation, and rejected any medieval deviation from that, which in the field of science meant anything that contradicted Aristotle. During the latter 15th century, the scholastic library of Oxford was destroyed, the works of Buridan were banned in France... All original 14th century manuscripts were lost, and the only reason those works weren't lost completely is that by then they had already been printed in too large a quantity.

In the 17th century, Galileo wrote his works on Physics, which are in fact nothing but a rewriting of all the laws and theorems discovered three centuries earlier by Buridan and Oresme. And it's quite clear he did this after rediscovering their textbooks, since Galileo's works include exact copies of graphs and drawings from Buridan and Oresme's textbooks.

Gutenberg did not invent the printing press.

>>1788163

It is extremely likely that the Chinese invented the printing press way before Europeans. To add to that, both Laurens Jansz. Coster and Dirk Martens introduced their printing presses alongside Guttenberg.

So it likely wouldn't have mattered much.

>>1788163
Assuming some magic prevents anyone else from inventing, exactly what it looked like before.