Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/09056_Field_TCGG T821.txt

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     We have seen how the alphabet involved the Greeks in a
fictional “Euclidean Space.” The effect of the phonetic alphabet
in translating the audile-tactile world into a visual world, was
both in physics and in literature to create the fallacy of
“content.” Whittaker writes thus (p. 79): “Aristotle regarded
the place of a body as being defined by the inner surface of a
body containing it: bodies which are not contained in other
bodies are not in any place, and therefore the first or
outermost heaven is not in any place: space and time do not
exist beyond it. He concluded that the total extent of the
universe is finite.”