08-01-2020, 12:19 AM
So, there it is in post #66. The exception to the 'rule' that inverted T-O structures are not maps, because that clearly is an inverted T-O map. It has cities.
The real question is, what is going on in the VMs? It is not a map. It is not a Ptolemaic cosmos. However it clearly has stars an a cosmic boundary, so it has to be a cosmos of some kind. The cosmic boundary also has the same 43 undulations as the Oresme illustration of BNF Fr. 565 fo. 23 and other structural similarities.
Nick Pelling did some investigation of Oresme back in Oct 2017 (IIRC). I believe Oresme's text was a translation of Aristotle.
The real question is, what is going on in the VMs? It is not a map. It is not a Ptolemaic cosmos. However it clearly has stars an a cosmic boundary, so it has to be a cosmos of some kind. The cosmic boundary also has the same 43 undulations as the Oresme illustration of BNF Fr. 565 fo. 23 and other structural similarities.
Nick Pelling did some investigation of Oresme back in Oct 2017 (IIRC). I believe Oresme's text was a translation of Aristotle.