The greatest impact of Archimedes' work on later mathematicians came in the 16th and 17th centuries with the printing of texts derived from the Greek, and eventually of the Greek text itself, the Editio Princeps, in Basel in 1544.
The IfZ edition may be at the center of this rancor, as the first known proposed printing of the text and already the subject of some prior political intrigue.
It served well in Germany, but when printers in Italy, in part under the influence of the Humanist movement, turned to the printing of Latin texts, they found the pointed stateliness of the Gothic letter out of keeping with the spirit of Humanism.
With that combination, people could print a mix of text and graphics on a page and not have to send rubber cement paste-ups to be produced by professionals outside of the office.
In a nod to the old type-setting machines of yore, they did use an iMac to key in stories and print out columns of text.
The new piece, "Last Words," right, is a series of six large posterlike sheets of paper with a stream of printed text made up of hundreds of short, direct-address sentences: "Tell Mom I love her.
In addition, there was the growing availability of halftone processing, which facilitated the printing of photographs alongside text.
Same goes for personalization: Is it possible to offer (and upsell) engraving or printing of user-provided text, logos or images?
The title of this brainy but incoherent show refers to the space between lines of printed text; most of the nine artists deal in words.
He rarely badmouths his rival, but on the opening night of his current London exhibition, Why I Am So Angry, he flogged 50 prints of his text-artwork Letter to Michael Gove at £100 a pop.
