A fixed point of view becomes possible with print and ends the 
image as a plastic organism.

How the “natural magic” of the camera obscura  anticipated 
Hollywood in turning the spectacle of the external world 
into a consumer commodity or package.

St. Thomas More offers a plan for a bridge over the turbulent 
river of scholastic philosophy.

Scribal culture could have neither authors nor publics such as 
were created by typography.

The medieval book trade was a second-hand trade even as with 
the dealing today in “old masters.”