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faculty, intensified perspective and the fixed point of view.
Associated with the visual stress on point of view and the
vanishing point that provides the illusion of perspective there
comes another illusion that space is visual, uniform and
continuous. The linearity, precision and uniformity of the
arrangement of movable types are inseparable from these
great cultural forms and innovations of Renaissance
experience. The new intensity of visual stress and private point
of view in the first century of printing were united to the means
of self-expression made possible by the typographic extension
of man.
Socially, the typographic extension of man brought in
nationalism, industrialism, mass markets, and universal literacy
and education. For print presented an image of repeatable
precision that inspired totally new forms of extending social