saw (p. 3) how technological forms can shape the sciences as 
much as the arts:

          For our great grandfathers, and for their fathers 
     back to the Renaissance, prints were no more and no less 
     than the only exactly repeatable pictorial statements. . . . 
     Until a century ago, prints made in the old techniques 
     filled all the functions that are now filled by our line cuts 
     and half tones, by our photographs and blueprints, by our 
     various color processes, and by our political cartoons and 
     pictorial advertisements. If we define prints from the 
     functional point of view so indicated, rather than by any 
     restriction of process or aesthetic value, it becomes 
     obvious that without prints we should have very few of 
     our modern sciences, technologies, archaeologies, or 
     ethnologies—for all of these are dependent, first or last,