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Communications in Europe and America were radically transformed in the 1600s and 1700s, but not because of any technological revolution. A printer from the 1500s magically catapulted into a print shop of the late 1700s would have found hand-operated wooden presses little altered from his own time. Viewed from the standpoint of social practices, politics, and institutions, however, the change in communications was enormous. Regular, publicly available postal service was introduced. The first newspapers, scientific journals, and other periodicals appeared and with them emerged journalism in its earliest forms. The market for print expanded, and the law of intellectual property began to take its modem shape. Most important from these developments a new sphere of public information, public debate, and public opinion emerged.