The cosmic comparison is more than ten years on. There's some reading to catch up. BNF Fr. 565 dated c. 1410, Paris, was made several decades after Oresme's death. Compare with BNF Fr. 1082, which is similar, but also different.
Mr. Pelling found other versions of Oresme were either text only or unavailable.
The other comparable cosmic diagrams are found in Harley 334 dated 2nd Qtr. 15th C., Paris, by Gautier de Metz, even longer dead. None of his prior works have illustrations like Harley 334. So, the common factor is not the *author* of the text, but the *artistic structure* of the diagram and the *place of production*.
BNF Fr. 565, Harley 334, and the VMs share an uncommon, rather simplified, cosmic structure: a central, inverted T-O Earth surrounded by a field of stars, enclosed in a cosmic boundary. The typical medieval cosmos, in contrast is built upon multiple concentric spheres for the basic elements, for the planetary orbits, and for the various heavens. There are *no planets and no heavens* in the VMs cosmos or its two historical comparables.
Despite the shared, structural similarities with the two similar historical examples, the VMs creates a total difference of appearance starting with a representation of the Earth that is not pictorial but instead is now linguistic.
Mr. Pelling found other versions of Oresme were either text only or unavailable.
The other comparable cosmic diagrams are found in Harley 334 dated 2nd Qtr. 15th C., Paris, by Gautier de Metz, even longer dead. None of his prior works have illustrations like Harley 334. So, the common factor is not the *author* of the text, but the *artistic structure* of the diagram and the *place of production*.
BNF Fr. 565, Harley 334, and the VMs share an uncommon, rather simplified, cosmic structure: a central, inverted T-O Earth surrounded by a field of stars, enclosed in a cosmic boundary. The typical medieval cosmos, in contrast is built upon multiple concentric spheres for the basic elements, for the planetary orbits, and for the various heavens. There are *no planets and no heavens* in the VMs cosmos or its two historical comparables.
Despite the shared, structural similarities with the two similar historical examples, the VMs creates a total difference of appearance starting with a representation of the Earth that is not pictorial but instead is now linguistic.