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history of Greek geometry, Ivins observes: “. . . again and again
during a period of six or seven centuries they went right up to
the door of modern geometry, but that, inhibited by their
tactile-muscular, metrical ideas, they were never able to open
that door and pass out into the great open spaces of modern
thought.” (p. 58)
When technology extends one of our senses, a new translation
of culture occurs as swiftly as the new technology is
interiorized.
* Although the main theme of this book is the Gutenberg
Galaxy or a configuration of events, which lies far ahead of the
world of alphabet and of scribal culture, it needs to be known
why, without alphabet, there would have been no Gutenberg.
And, therefore, we must get some insight into the conditions of