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between extremes. This was a fundamental challenge to
definitions and ideas that had tangled thought since the
time of the ancient Greeks.
These things, the exactly repeatable pictorial
statement, a logical grammar for representation of space
relationship in pictorial statements, and the concepts of
relativity and continuity, were and still are superficially so
unrelated that they are rarely thought of seriously in
conjunction with one another. But, between them, they
have revolutionized both the descriptive sciences and the
mathematics on which the science of physics rests, and
in addition they are essential to a great deal of modern
technology. Their effects on art have been very marked.
They were absolutely new things in the world. There was
no precedent for them in classical practice or thought of