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methods of precise, visual quantification described by John U.
Nef earlier. As Nef showed, these minute statistical methods
were the means of applied or translated knowledge. Montaigne
had all the experiences and techniques of the impressionist film
of our own time. And both modes of awareness are direct
extrapolations of typography when applied to the spoken word.
In the midst of impressionism symbolism strove to recover the
unified field of being once more. It is easy today in an electronic
milieu to understand the novelty of segmental impressionist
devices as they emerged from the sixteenth until the end of the
nineteenth century. They are inseparable from the Gutenberg
galaxy of events.
And so with Descartes, for whom science is the
anticipation of causes with effects: “Foundation of an
admirable science which his mind conceives as an ensemble of