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[Antonio García Jiménez]

Of course I'm not saying that. Aristotle was an authority for centuries in many fields, and he isn't today. But you can't equate the history of science with a problem of interpreting a 15th-century document. 

 I am simply maintaining that Panofsky was an expert in iconography and that his opinion deserves due attention, enough to call into question the conventional interpretation of the female figures in Quire 13