Dr. Brian Keating

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I think that they were extremely, as they are now, I have great colleagues that are from the Netherlands, they were obsessed with high quality, as Germans are. You know, they're very similar to Germans, into very precise instrumentation and high quality.

I think that they were extremely, as they are now, I have great colleagues that are from the Netherlands, they were obsessed with high quality, as Germans are. You know, they're very similar to Germans, into very precise instrumentation and high quality.

I think that they were extremely, as they are now, I have great colleagues that are from the Netherlands, they were obsessed with high quality, as Germans are. You know, they're very similar to Germans, into very precise instrumentation and high quality.

It's interesting to note that glasses were only really invented in some sense because of the fact that there was an existing standard for human visual acuity. Okay, so we all know we go to the eye doctor.

It's interesting to note that glasses were only really invented in some sense because of the fact that there was an existing standard for human visual acuity. Okay, so we all know we go to the eye doctor.

It's interesting to note that glasses were only really invented in some sense because of the fact that there was an existing standard for human visual acuity. Okay, so we all know we go to the eye doctor.

Eyeglasses, yeah. So we know today that when you go to the eye doctor, there's an eye chart, right?

Eyeglasses, yeah. So we know today that when you go to the eye doctor, there's an eye chart, right?

Eyeglasses, yeah. So we know today that when you go to the eye doctor, there's an eye chart, right?

Snellen chart, okay.

Snellen chart, okay.

Snellen chart, okay.

But all those eye charts, every DMV here has the exact same size for the E at the top, okay? It's a calibration standard. How could they do that 400 years ago? We're talking 430 years ago. It turns out there was one and only one standard that was acceptable across all of Western Europe. It was the Gutenberg Bible.

But all those eye charts, every DMV here has the exact same size for the E at the top, okay? It's a calibration standard. How could they do that 400 years ago? We're talking 430 years ago. It turns out there was one and only one standard that was acceptable across all of Western Europe. It was the Gutenberg Bible.

But all those eye charts, every DMV here has the exact same size for the E at the top, okay? It's a calibration standard. How could they do that 400 years ago? We're talking 430 years ago. It turns out there was one and only one standard that was acceptable across all of Western Europe. It was the Gutenberg Bible.

The Gutenberg Bible was set in print by Gutenberg, and it had a fixed size of all the characters. So what they would do is at a couple of feet, they put the Gutenberg Bible in front of people. It's amazing to think about it because there's only like 10 copies of the Gutenberg Bible still left. They're all in vaults. They're all worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Gutenberg Bible was set in print by Gutenberg, and it had a fixed size of all the characters. So what they would do is at a couple of feet, they put the Gutenberg Bible in front of people. It's amazing to think about it because there's only like 10 copies of the Gutenberg Bible still left. They're all in vaults. They're all worth hundreds of millions of dollars.