How did the invention of the printing press fuel the ideas of the reformation and the scientific revolution?

  The correct answer is :  The invention of the printing press helped to spread knowledge widely, with greater coverage and at a faster speed. Martin Luther King said that the invention of the printing press for the Reformation was the best gift of God and the greatest. Francis Bacon who developed the scientific method defines the printing press as one of the inventions that changed the world forever. Through the impressions, scientific findings and experimental data were shared with large groups and, in this way, science was very successful during the 16th and 17th centuries.      

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