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saw (p. 3) how technological forms can shape the sciences as
much as the arts:
For our great grandfathers, and for their fathers
back to the Renaissance, prints were no more and no less
than the only exactly repeatable pictorial statements. . . .
Until a century ago, prints made in the old techniques
filled all the functions that are now filled by our line cuts
and half tones, by our photographs and blueprints, by our
various color processes, and by our political cartoons and
pictorial advertisements. If we define prints from the
functional point of view so indicated, rather than by any
restriction of process or aesthetic value, it becomes
obvious that without prints we should have very few of
our modern sciences, technologies, archaeologies, or
ethnologies—for all of these are dependent, first or last,