14-07-2026, 08:09 PM
(14-07-2026, 06:29 PM)ololololo wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Undoubtedly, there are similarities. But this meaning is not suitable for VMS if it is not a theoretical but a practical book (i.e. gives specific medical knowledge). The author has no need to know how the world was created and to look at such schemes.
But the geography of the world would be equally irrelevant.
The general theory is that many (most? all?) the illustrations are not entirely (not at all?) meaningful. They would be partly or wholly just decoration, (badly) copied by the Scribe from various scholarly books that were popular at the time, to make the book more sellable. Like Oresme's Heavens and World, Taccola's notebook (or something similar), the Balneis Puteolanum, some unspecified herbals, that German "poetic almanac" with the old woman and the rosary, etc.
All the best, --stolfi