If you want to see how things *really* have changed, take a look at this old description of the VMs cosmos.
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And compare this with the discussions and interpretations that have been developed subsequent to the 2014 discovery of the connection with the cosmic illustrations found in BNF Fr. 565 and Harley 334. The old discussion knows nothing of Oresme, de Metz, or the texts' production provenance, nothing of Shirakatsi's wheel, or the nebuly line and its 43 undulations.
It's not Newbold's cosmos (Andromeda) anymore. However, if these discoveries by various investigators are combined, they reveal a level of relevant, medieval information unseen in the old description.
First, there is the recognition of what is being presented, as seen and potentially known from the medieval perspective, not as things that are unrecognized -and therefore nonexistent - from the modern perspective.
Second, there is the question of why things were presented this way. There is an incongruous combination in the VMs cosmos. There are dual orientations in VMs White Aries. There are dual personalities in the VMs mermaid. There is a certain degree of subtle sophistication in the duality, ambiguity and trickery involved in these illustrations and there is more to be revealed.
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And compare this with the discussions and interpretations that have been developed subsequent to the 2014 discovery of the connection with the cosmic illustrations found in BNF Fr. 565 and Harley 334. The old discussion knows nothing of Oresme, de Metz, or the texts' production provenance, nothing of Shirakatsi's wheel, or the nebuly line and its 43 undulations.
It's not Newbold's cosmos (Andromeda) anymore. However, if these discoveries by various investigators are combined, they reveal a level of relevant, medieval information unseen in the old description.
First, there is the recognition of what is being presented, as seen and potentially known from the medieval perspective, not as things that are unrecognized -and therefore nonexistent - from the modern perspective.
Second, there is the question of why things were presented this way. There is an incongruous combination in the VMs cosmos. There are dual orientations in VMs White Aries. There are dual personalities in the VMs mermaid. There is a certain degree of subtle sophistication in the duality, ambiguity and trickery involved in these illustrations and there is more to be revealed.