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Knowledge maps itself to the environments we build, the context we live in creates the potential field for its symbols.  As technology evolves this range of what can be shifts, the apparatuses we construct to help decipher the world make up the laboratory of what we scientifically and conjecturally explore.  But how do different technologies vary in their influence?  Is a mariner's astrolabe as paradigm-altering as their star chart?  What of buildings, weapons, codices, slide rules? Let's focus on a couple of components.  First let's think of the interpretive range of a given thing.  While every object has some cultural meaning, we can see how say a weapon has a particular use and reading in mind, where a codex would have a whole range.  However glorious we make the inscriptions on Achilles' shield, its purpose is clearly to physically defend Achilles.  But the purpose of some writing on this event in Achilles' life, which may describe the building of the shield, wi