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reconquered the heterogeneous dimensions of the milieu
intérieur at exactly the same time that Rimbaud and Baudelaire
shifted poetry to the paysage intérieur . But for three centuries
before this the arts and sciences were engaged in the conquest
of the milieu extérieur by means of new visual quantity and
homogeneity derived especially from the printed word. And it
was print that enabled letters and numbers to go their
specialist and divergent ways to the confusion of arts and
sciences ever since. But at the start, writes Professor Nef in his
Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization (p. 21).
The novel desire, which was then arising, to see
nature, including animal and human bodies, as they
appear directly to man’s senses, was of much help to
science. The researches of a few great Renaissance
artists, who were almost universal men in the range of