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Step forward in creating a new digital medium was the development of the screen as a new writing surface. Actually seeing a screen, attached to a computer, glowing with dots that were constantly refreshed and thus able to be manipulated and rearranged must have been one of the physical experiences that prepared researchers to understand that a computer would have graphical potential. The first computer to have such a screen appears to be Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) built for Cambridge University in England in 1949. Three cathode ray tubes were built into the interface, the screens monitored the content of the computer's registers, and memory; this was the amongst the first Computers to use a memory to store its programmes. ~ Page 303

Though we can go back to Descartes to find philosophers who believed that mathematics and geometry might provide for a kind of thinking that was pure and precise, it was George Boole, a young mathematician from Lincoln, who put flesh on the idea. In 1833, when he was just seventeen years old, he had what he described as a mystical experience. Whilst walking through a meadow he became convinced that his vocation in life was to explain the logic of human thought in symbolic or algebraic form. It was Boole's lifetime of thinking that was picked up by the first computer scientists in the middle of the twentieth century. ~ Page 302

The word encyclopedia comes from the Koine Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία, transliterated enkyklios paideia, meaning "general education" from enkyklios(ἐγκύκλιος), meaning "circular, recurrent, required regularly, general and paideia (παιδεία), meaning "education, rearing of a child" it was reduced to a single word due to an error by copyists of Latin manuscripts. Together, the phrase literally translates as "complete instruction" or "complete knowledge". (Source Wikipedia) . . . first published in France between 1751 and 1765 and best known as the “Encyclopedie,’ which endeavored to summarize all human knowledge in its 18,000 pages of text, 75,000 different entries, and 20 million words. Its primary editor, Denis Diderot, was one of the heroes of the Enlightenment and indeed the ‘Encyclopedie’ reprsents a culmination of Enlightenment thought which valued reason, science and progress what we know -- above all else . . . Page 5 “HOMO MYSTERIOUS” Author David P. Barash, Phd

In reality the introduction of the English round hand was a cooperative effort, a matter of common agreement between masters of the time and this simple script answered the needs of an age where swift and accurate written records had become crucial to many enterprises. Other penmen who assisted in shaping the script included Charles Snell (The Penman's Treasury Open'd, 1694) and George Shelly (Natural Writing 1709). The writing maser and engraver George Bickham (1684-1758) helped popularize the hand through 'The Universal Penman,' published in parts between 1733 and 1741; the work contained his own engravings of the work of twenty-five contemporary English writing masters in 210 plates.