03-04-2019, 08:44 PM
The world of Fontana and the author of VMS was full of angels, demons, astral spirits...Everyone believed in it. They were real forces. We don't believe in spirits and that deeply separates our mentalities.
Fontana, of course, was an engineer with scientific mentality but likely he, as his contemporaries, believed in the occult powers. As Anthony Grafton says, "he used his engineering skills to mimic the magicians". Is what he does with his drawing of the magic lantern, where he uses his knowledge of optics to project a devil. He conjures demons as necromancers do. Actually, what his skills do is to confirm the reality of magic.
I think that his encrypted code is also an imitation of the magic formulas
Fontana, of course, was an engineer with scientific mentality but likely he, as his contemporaries, believed in the occult powers. As Anthony Grafton says, "he used his engineering skills to mimic the magicians". Is what he does with his drawing of the magic lantern, where he uses his knowledge of optics to project a devil. He conjures demons as necromancers do. Actually, what his skills do is to confirm the reality of magic.
I think that his encrypted code is also an imitation of the magic formulas