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The technology of exact repeatability was a stress that
the Romans introduced into the Greek visual analysis. This
stress on the continuous, uniform line with its indifference to
the oral values of pluralistic organization was, in the view of
Ivins (pp. 4­5) effectively transmitted to and by the Dark Ages:
Historians until very recent times have been literary
men and philologues. As students of the past they have
rarely found anything they were not looking for. They
have been so full of wonder at what the Greeks said, that
they have paid little attention to what the Greeks did not
do or know. They have been so full of horror at what the
Dark Ages did not say, that they have paid no attention
to what they did do and know. Modern research, by men
who are aware of low subjects like economics and
technology, is rapidly changing our ideas about these