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“invented” it. Any creature in motion is a wheel in that
repetition of movement has a cyclic and circular principle in it.
Thus the melodies of literate societies are repeatable cycles.
But the music of nonliterate people has no such repetitive cyclic
and abstract form as melody. Invention, in a word, is
translation of one kind of space into another.
Giedion devotes some time to the work of the French
physiologist, Etienne Jules Morey (1830­1904), who devised
the myograph for recording the movements of muscles: “Morey
quite consciously looks back to Descartes, but instead of
graphically representing sections he translates organic
movement into graphic form.” (p. 19)