For a long time philosophy has been associated 
with systems, with world views, weltanschauungs, 
and general pictures  of things. Since the 
Renaissance most methods and procedures have 
strongly tended toward stress on the visual 
organization and application of knowledge. Printing gave enormous stress to such visual process, to differential calculus, and to statistics.

But since the early 19th century, with the arrival of 
electrical problems and processes, mathematics 
and physics have moved away from visual 
organization and statistics toward dynamics, time 
organization and what psychologists refer to as