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of later scholasticism into visual “method,” will be a major aid
in the next phase of the Gutenberg configuration of events.
More, in the second book of his Utopia  (p. 82), also shows his
entire awareness of the homogenizing process of the later
scholasticism of his own day. He is happy to record that
Utopians are old-fashioned: “But as they in all thynges be
almost equall to our olde auncyente clerkes, so our new
Logiciens in subtyll inventyons have farre passed and gone
beyonde them. For they have not devised one of all those rules
of restryctyons, and amplyfycatyons, and supposytyons, very
wittelye invented in the small Logycalles, whyche heare oure
chyldren in euerye place do learne.”

     Both L’Apparition du livre  by Febvre and Martin, and Curt
Bühler’s The Fifteenth Century Book  are extensive studies of the
transition from scribal to typographical culture. Together with