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The organological idea of mystical tribal unity was in itself
only partly visual. Merely visual stress in the Renaissance “now
served Henry VIII to incorporate the Anglicana Ecclesia , so to
speak, the genuine corpus mysticum of his empire, into the
corpus politicum of England, of which he as king was the head.”
That is to say, Henry translated the non-visible into the visible
exactly in keeping with the science of his age, which was giving
visual form to non-visual forces. And the same transformation
of the audible into the visual word was the prime effect of
typography.
In a very interesting passage (vol. II, pp. 103­4) of his Medieval
and Early Modern Science , A. C. Crombie argues that:
Many scholars now agree that 15th-century
humanism, which arose in Italy and spread northwards,