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quote below) and numerous articles, are of direct relevance to
the student of the effects of Gutenberg technology. Ong’s
investigation of the role of visualization in later medieval logic
and philosophy is our direct concern here, for visualization and
quantification are near twins. Earlier we have seen how, for the
humanists, medieval glosses, illumination, and architectural
modes had all served the art of memory. Also, the medieval
dialecticians pursued their oral courses well into the sixteenth
century:
The invention of printing invited large-scale manipulation
of words in space and gave new urgency to the drive
toward handling logic or dialectic quantitatively, a drive
long manifest in the medieval arts scholostics. . . . The
tendency for quantitative or quasi-quantitative
manipulation of logic to dissipate itself in memory devices