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between an auditory and a visual bias seldom reached a high
degree of intensity until after mechanical and typographical
technology had conferred on the visual great preponderance.
Prior to this ascendancy, the relative equality among the
senses of sight, sound, touch, and movement in interplay in
manuscript culture, had fostered the preference for light
through , whether in language, art or architecture. Panofsky’s
view in Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism (pp. 58­60) is:
A man imbued with the scholastic habit would look upon
the mode of architectural presentation just as he looked
upon the mode of literary presentation, from the point of
view of manifestatio. He would have taken it for granted
that the primary purpose of the many elements that
compose a cathedral was to ensure stability, just as he
took it for granted that the primary purpose of the many