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knows objects separately, one after another, and unlike the eye
it has no way of getting a practically simultaneous view or
acquaintance with a group of objects as a single awareness.
Unlike the eye, the unaided hand is unable to discover whether
three or more objects are on a line.”
But what concerns us about the first crisis in
mathematics is the evident fictions which must be resorted to
in order to translate the visual into the tactile. But the greater
fictions lay ahead in the infinitesimal calculus.
As we shall see, with regard to the sixteenth century,
number and visuality, or tactility and retinal experience, split
quite asunder and went their divergent ways to set up the rival
empires of Art and Science. This divergence, so strikingly
initiated in the Greek world, was held in relative abeyance until