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of philosophy; and that great kingdom of philosophy was soon
parcelled out into the wide range of uncommunicating sciences
and specialties we know today. Intensity of stress on visual
blueprinting and precision is an explosive force that fragments
the world of power and knowledge alike. The increasing
precision and quantity of visual information transformed the
print into a three-dimensional world of perspective and fixed
point of view. Hieronymus Bosch, by means of paintings that
interfused medieval forms in Renaissance space, told what it
felt like to live straddled between the two worlds of the old and
the new during this revolution. Simultaneously, Bosch provided
the older kind of plastic, tactile image but placed it in the
intense new visual perspective. He gave at once the older
medieval idea of unique, discontinuous space, superimposed on
the new idea of uniform, connected space. This he did with
earnest nightmare intensity.