abstraction or separation of the tactile from the other senses, 
whereas the yes-no which precedes it is a more “whole” 
response. Such, at any rate, are the new binary computers that 
dispense with number, and make possible the structuralist 
physics of Heisenberg. For the ancient world, numbers had not 
been just tactile for measurement as they became in the split 
visual world of the Renaissance. As de Chardin states it in his 
Phenomenon of Man  (p. 50):

     What ancient thought half perceived and imagined as a 
     natural harmony of numbers, modern science has 
     grasped and converted in the precision of formulae 
     dependent on measurement. Indeed, we owe our 
     knowledge of the macro-structure and micro-structure of 
     the universe far more to increasingly accurate 
     measurements than to direct observations. And, again, it