(28-11-2025, 04:47 PM)dashstofsk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It is a myth that people at that time were put into prison just for ‘provocative’ teachings. It was a time of new ideas, new philosophies. Belief in the secret sciences was strong, and new ideas were welcomed. An ambitious readership was fast growing. Raising people from the dead, summoning the spirits of dead people, addressing chants to the angels in heaven, incantations, offering burnt offerings to deities, suffumigation, demonic intervention, charting the planets, interpreting their positions to predict the future. All of this was not provocative at the time. These all had a theological basis and so they were accepted as genuine fact.
I'm not referring to scientific ideas necessarily. An ideology that dictates that <country A> has no business sending troops to <country B> or that the king of <country C> should not report to the pope in <country D> would most likely lead to imprisonment under the right circumstances. I mean, it would even in present days, in many (most? all?) countries there exists some text that if you publicly produce and distribute it would eventually put you in jail.
Under the prisoner scenario the doodles in the MS have nothing to do (at least not literally) with the content, so it could be not about natural sciences or magic at all.