Water, earth and air

[Stefan Wirtz_2]

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But we just concluded that it was copied from the version that appears in that Oresme book, where its meaning is somewhat different than that of the "standard" T-O map.  More like the Cosmos during the Creation?  No?  

Really, did we come to this conclusion? I don‘t think so.
- there are no spiral arms in Oresme version
- there is not any wording in Oresme
- there is a strict count and segment of stars (most 5, once 6) in VMS, but random starring in Oresme
- only the seam, and the blueish background of stars, are in both drawings.
- Oresme seems to show not any „creation dynamics“ for me. VMS is spiralling, yes, but I am lacking the fantasy to see somehow galaxy/cosmos here. The 8 motive is often related to winds or directions.

Not much for a „copy“, maybe inspired, but seam and blue sky are really not unique to Oresme or even french authors.
I would remain here again that there is the „world“ in center, but not agree to Air-Earth-Sea content.

The colors are probably not original. If we ignore them, it does not seem possible to tell whether the circle was originally divided by a T.   I bet it was undivided, like the other three.

All the best, --stolfi

Well, all the colours in VMS seem somehow „not original“, due to a bit poor (hastily) workmanship applied some later. But the colours are those as in many other drawings, standard blue, green and red.

The circles of all corners at f 67 are drawn very weak, nearly not visible even without colours. Impossible to say if there was a segmentation underneath, or not.