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11 Sep 07
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Far from emerging from a rejection of words, in fact science originated partly from a need to master as many of them as possible.
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The Renaissance thus saw a proliferation of typographical, lexicographical and bibliographical schemes to alleviate the massive oversupply of printed ideas.
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All these solutions had one thing in common. They presupposed that the multiplicity of printed opinions must be reduced to something apprehensible by just one pair of eyes.
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instead of reducing all books to one, why not multiply the capacities of the reader?
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shared out the labour of evaluating new and reissued works among small social groups. The readings that resulted merged the perspectives and expertise of the collaborators into one.
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the reading itself generated proposals for new experiments
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because collective reading involved bringing varied perspectives to bear, it exemplified the society's claim to be disinterested and undogmatic.
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appraise new books on an informed basis.
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