Original publication: Drake, Stillman. "Early Science and the Printed Book: The Spread of Science Beyond the Universities." Renaissance and Reformation 6 (3): 2014. 43-52. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v6i3.14006. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.