Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08493_Field_TCGG T258.txt

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ingenuity.” Perhaps Ivins overdoes this emphasis on the Dark
and Middle Ages as “a culture of techniques and technologies,”
but it is a kind of approach which makes scholasticism
understandable, and that prepares us for the great medieval
invention of typography that was the “take-off” moment into
the new spaces of the modern world. (19)

The word modern was a term of reproach used by the patristic
humanists against the medieval schoolmen who developed the
new logic and physics.

*     Since then many books on medieval science have appeared
which confirm the Ivins view. The Science of Mechanics in the
Middle Ages  by Marshall Clagett is an example from which I will
select a few themes that illustrate the continuous development
of the visual stress which we have seen emerge in the Greek