03-11-2022, 06:36 PM
What if the whole VMs text is a combination of sense and nonsense? Most of the text could be nonsense, while the sensible and relevant parts were disguised in some fashion. Shall we assume that the best parts have been removed?
Do the VMs illustrations provide any guidance to the investigation? Botanical identifications bloom briefly and then wilt. The information <historically relevant facts and ideas> contained in the VMs illustrations appears to have been disguised, altered and hidden in certain examples, at least to the extent that the medieval interpretations of reality have been recovered thus far.
If the VMs is a puzzle, or a serious sort of spy vs. spy, perhaps the significant text has been hidden. It really does raise the level of difficulty a bit if only certain parts of the written text are relevant. The presence of Stolfi's markers in certain circular text segments certainly provides the necessary structural elements.
With a cosmos that combines the structures from Oresme and Shirakatsi, setting limits on VMs "sophistication" - by which I mean trickery - may prove difficult.
Do the VMs illustrations provide any guidance to the investigation? Botanical identifications bloom briefly and then wilt. The information <historically relevant facts and ideas> contained in the VMs illustrations appears to have been disguised, altered and hidden in certain examples, at least to the extent that the medieval interpretations of reality have been recovered thus far.
If the VMs is a puzzle, or a serious sort of spy vs. spy, perhaps the significant text has been hidden. It really does raise the level of difficulty a bit if only certain parts of the written text are relevant. The presence of Stolfi's markers in certain circular text segments certainly provides the necessary structural elements.
With a cosmos that combines the structures from Oresme and Shirakatsi, setting limits on VMs "sophistication" - by which I mean trickery - may prove difficult.