22-01-2026, 09:04 AM
No worries!
As Stolfi says, there is a pretty good consensus that images came first. In the case of the plants in the herbal section, the plant takes up its space without hesitation, while the text does all kinds of weird tricks to fill up the remaining space as well as possible. Kind of like this:
![[Image: 7747a6504e2153f01437dd6f8b43526e?impolic...height=485]](https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/7747a6504e2153f01437dd6f8b43526e?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=1153&cropW=2048&xPos=0&yPos=40&width=862&height=485)
As Stolfi says, there is a pretty good consensus that images came first. In the case of the plants in the herbal section, the plant takes up its space without hesitation, while the text does all kinds of weird tricks to fill up the remaining space as well as possible. Kind of like this:
![[+]](https://www.voynich.ninja/images/collapse_collapsed.png)