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towards sharper visualization. In Ong’s words (p. 168): “This
increased sophistication in visual presentation is not restricted,
of course, to Ramist writings, but is part of the evolution of
typography, showing clearly how the use of printing moved the
word away from its original association with sound and treated
it more and more as a ‘thing’ in space.”
Ong makes the extremely important point (p. 169) that
the Ramist hostility to Aristotle was based on his
incompatibility with print culture:
In manuscripts, diagrams are much more laborious
productions than straight text, for manuscript copying
only with great difficulty controls the position of material
on the page. Typographical reproduction controls it
automatically and inevitably. . . . If Ramus did indeed