09-01-2020, 08:29 PM
Agreed i do not have proof of the wilderness part, it is a function of having understood the right side to be the habitable known world. Still looking since as i say i think it is important we get it right.
Mark you did indeed predict my thoughts on the german version. Also i note the elements map part shows fire below air, i think again this is secular understanding supplanting the Aristolean ordering. Fire is of course known to us on the ground, and invisible heavenly fire is a more difficult concept to visualize especially if it is no longer taught as such.
I understand what you are saying about the wording, that continents are expected. But it would be at odds with drawing an Oresme-like cosmos, unless it is simply to pull in all the various other incarnations thereof, ie to make you look it up and thereby get the history lesson along the way. It could be like a 'further reading' mnemonic.
Mark you did indeed predict my thoughts on the german version. Also i note the elements map part shows fire below air, i think again this is secular understanding supplanting the Aristolean ordering. Fire is of course known to us on the ground, and invisible heavenly fire is a more difficult concept to visualize especially if it is no longer taught as such.
I understand what you are saying about the wording, that continents are expected. But it would be at odds with drawing an Oresme-like cosmos, unless it is simply to pull in all the various other incarnations thereof, ie to make you look it up and thereby get the history lesson along the way. It could be like a 'further reading' mnemonic.