11-04-2021, 10:20 AM
Yes, I also think that the important thing about the VM is why?
This book reveals how little we know about medieval culture. That's why it's so important, because it encourages us to know, to continue investigating.
In an age when herbs were already drawn realistically, why would someone draw about 120 plants that we have not been able to identify in over a hundred years of research? The obvious conclusion is that they are made up. Why?
Here everyone will have their own theory. Mine, which is consistent with medieval science and the other half of the book, is that it is the stars that create plants, and all these strange herbs must be in remote places on Earth.
The authors of the VM have imagined the plants but don't know anything about them. That is why it is useless to search for an explanatory text that does not exist. The chains of glyphs that we see written may not be more than astronomical symbols, references to the stars.
This book reveals how little we know about medieval culture. That's why it's so important, because it encourages us to know, to continue investigating.
In an age when herbs were already drawn realistically, why would someone draw about 120 plants that we have not been able to identify in over a hundred years of research? The obvious conclusion is that they are made up. Why?
Here everyone will have their own theory. Mine, which is consistent with medieval science and the other half of the book, is that it is the stars that create plants, and all these strange herbs must be in remote places on Earth.
The authors of the VM have imagined the plants but don't know anything about them. That is why it is useless to search for an explanatory text that does not exist. The chains of glyphs that we see written may not be more than astronomical symbols, references to the stars.