(02-08-2020, 10:05 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Copernicus was born in a completely different world than the makers of the Voynich.
Of course the Renaissance was different from the Middle Ages, but the Renaissance began about You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. the VMS was written; if one prefers 1492 instead, we could say that Copernicus was born in the Middle Ages.
One could also say that he was born in a geocentric world, a major trait of Medieval ideology.
Kepler, who was born in 1571 and amply built on Copernicus' ideas, could still write (in Latin) this description of the sun (from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.):
Kepler wrote:producer, conserver, and warmer of all things; a fountain of light, rich in fruitful heat, most fair, limpid, and pure to the sight, the source of vision, portrayer of all colors, though himself empty of colour, called king of the planets for his motion, heart of the world for his power, its eye for his beauty ... the Sun, who alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty and worthy to become the home of God himself, not to say the first mover
I think these ideas suggest that the Copernical revolution also had a medieval / symbolic appeal, together with the modern / scientific value which makes Copernicus and Kepler still famous and respected.
PS: In 1616 the Congregation of the Index banned Copernicus's De Revolutionibus and other heliocentric works. The Middle Ages were hard to die.