18-01-2026, 02:04 PM
(18-01-2026, 01:06 PM)Rafal wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The Universe is simplified and doesn't have any text because its only goal is letting you know that the book in the picture is about astronomy.
And it must have been added by the Illustrator on its own initiative.
The astronomer in the picture presumably is Oresme, and the king is king of France (I think I see a fleur-de-lys in that picture, but I may be hallucinating).
That "T-O map" in the painting is funny: instead of Europe, Asia, and Oceania it shows sea, countryside, and ... and ... beuh... pea soup with pappardelle? (Sorry, I haven't had breakfast yet...)
So the VMS Author and/or its Scribe apparently copied the central part of f68v3 from some variant of the above diagram. The same inverted "T-O map" arrangement (only with text instead of drawings), and the star-studded area around it bounded by a wolkenband. But it seems that they (or a BEEP) did not know what the latter was, or how it is "officially" supposed to be drawn. It seems that they mistook it for the physical edge of the starry area, seen either as a pool or as a thick plate.
And then they added the eight curved roads or rivers, four ending at the edge of the "pool" and four going through it to the "T-O map". Has anyone found another version of that "universe" drawing out there with similar "spiral arms"?
All the best, --stolfi