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is ever bolder measurements that have revealed to us the
calculable conditions to which every transformation of
matter is subject according to the force it calls into play.
Back in the visual space in abstraction from the other
senses, the Renaissance and eighteenth-century world “seemed
to rest, static and fragmentable on the three axes of its
geometry. Now it is a casting from a single mould.” It is not
here a question of values but rather of the need to understand
how the achievements of the Renaissance were associated with
the separation of functions and senses. But the discovery of
the visual techniques of separation and static arrest in a
traditional milieu of audile-tactile culture was of immense
fruitfulness. The same techniques used in a world that has
been homogenized by these techniques may have much less
advantage. De Chardin says (p. 221):