05-04-2019, 02:53 PM
Well I think we have not enough data yet to judge whether the diagrams look worthy or worthless from the perspective of a 15th century learned man (or some charlatan perhaps).
Also there are definitely no reasons to state that the text was designed to look "silly". In those years people had no idea of statistics, entropy, noone would have calculated how many paragraphs start with gallows and bother about whether otol and odaiin are both mentioned in the first page or not. It is almost impossible that anyone in 15th century would have carefully modelled the "silly" look of the text with all its observed characteristics. Say, it was some process which, by its inherent properties, made the text look as it is - or it was a synthetic language that looks "silly" by unpretentiousness of the design, but not by the latter's intention to make it look "silly".
What vaguely glides on the surface is that as many textual designations of the imagery as possible have been avoided, but it is still unclear whether it is an additional layer of secrecy or it is a limitation of the script which does not allow to express many notions.
Also there are definitely no reasons to state that the text was designed to look "silly". In those years people had no idea of statistics, entropy, noone would have calculated how many paragraphs start with gallows and bother about whether otol and odaiin are both mentioned in the first page or not. It is almost impossible that anyone in 15th century would have carefully modelled the "silly" look of the text with all its observed characteristics. Say, it was some process which, by its inherent properties, made the text look as it is - or it was a synthetic language that looks "silly" by unpretentiousness of the design, but not by the latter's intention to make it look "silly".
What vaguely glides on the surface is that as many textual designations of the imagery as possible have been avoided, but it is still unclear whether it is an additional layer of secrecy or it is a limitation of the script which does not allow to express many notions.