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tendency the effect of typography on the arts and sciences as
well as upon human sensibility. Thus the habit of a fixed
position or “point of view” so natural to the reader of
typography, gave popular extension to the avant-garde
perspectivism of the fifteenth century:
Perspective rapidly became an essential part of the
technique of making informative pictures, and before long
was demanded of pictures that were not informative. Its
introduction had much to do with that western European
preoccupation with verisimilitude, which is probably the
distinguishing mark of subsequent European picture
making. The third of these events was Nicholas of Cusa’s
enunciation, in 1440, of the first thorough-going
doctrines of the relativity of knowledge and of the
continuity, through transitions and middle terms,