the discovery of lineal perspective in the arts. Navigators took a 
long time to accept the possibility of space as uniform, 
connected, and continuous. Today in physics, as in painting 
and sculpture, progress consists in giving up the idea of space 
as either uniform, continuous, or connected. Visuality has lost 
its primacy.

     In the Second World War the marksman was replaced by 
automatic weapons fired blindly in what were called “perimeters 
of fire” or “fire lanes.” The old-timers fought to retain the bolt-
action Springfield which encouraged single-shot accuracy and 
sighting. Spraying the air with lead in a kind of tactual embrace 
was found to be good by night, as well as by day, and sighting 
was unnecessary. At this stage of technology, the literate man 
is somewhat in the position of the old-timers who backed the 
Springfield rifle against perimeter fire. It is this same visual