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principle of visual quantification discovered in the later Middle
Ages, as Clagett explained. This principle of translating non-
visual matters of motion and energy into visual terms is the
very principle of “applied” knowledge in any time or place. The
Gutenberg technology extended this principle to writing and
language and the codification and transmission of every kind of
learning.
With Gutenberg Europe enters the technological phase of
progress, when change itself becomes the archetypal norm of
social life.
* In an age which discovered this technique of translation as
the means of applied knowledge, it is to be expected that it will
be found everywhere as a consciously experienced novelty. Sir
Philip Sidney, in his Defence of Poetry , felt he had hit upon a