methods of precise, visual quantification described by John U. 
Nef earlier. As Nef showed, these minute statistical methods 
were the means of applied or translated knowledge. Montaigne 
had all the experiences and techniques of the impressionist film 
of our own time. And both modes of awareness are direct 
extrapolations of typography when applied to the spoken word. 
In the midst of impressionism symbolism strove to recover the 
unified field of being once more. It is easy today in an electronic 
milieu to understand the novelty of segmental impressionist 
devices as they emerged from the sixteenth until the end of the 
nineteenth century. They are inseparable from the Gutenberg 
galaxy of events.

     And so with Descartes, for whom science is the 
anticipation of causes with effects: “Foundation of an 
admirable science which his mind conceives as an ensemble of