The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

He could also write the first version on some different parchment or even paper

He definitely would have written a draft on paper first.  Even if he was an European with a 1000-year 100% European pedigree, all in the same small town in Germany which he never left, living between a vellum factory and a vitriol-filled mine, with an oak tree in the backyard.  

It would be insanity to write anything directly from brain to vellum, or to dictate from brain to a Scribe writing on vellum. 

All the best, --stolfi

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I was sufficiently schooled in statistics as part of my university mathematics course

Then you have no excuse.

All the best, --stolfi