I am really not fully convinced that it's a ram. I do like the similarity with the Tuebingen Hausbuch illustration, but also those in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., which of course is not a ram.
The second most important aspect of this is that there are plenty of reasonable alternatives, so the argument that it is an armadillo, and what one should derive from that, is not valid.
The most important aspect for me is this:
there is a fundamental difference between what an illustration looks like, and what it represents.
The association between what it looks like and what it represents is often made only too easily.
Of course, when the name of the object (or person) is written near it, we know what it represents, but we are not in that position with the Voynich MS.
The second most important aspect of this is that there are plenty of reasonable alternatives, so the argument that it is an armadillo, and what one should derive from that, is not valid.
The most important aspect for me is this:
there is a fundamental difference between what an illustration looks like, and what it represents.
The association between what it looks like and what it represents is often made only too easily.
Of course, when the name of the object (or person) is written near it, we know what it represents, but we are not in that position with the Voynich MS.
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