14-09-2026, 04:37 AM
(13-09-2026, 08:13 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This does in no way imply that I think the drawings are meaningless. But both things can coexist: a poor artist trying to communicate something through drawings. But that something is not standard, even if we normalize for the effect of poor technique.
Agreed. The Scribe definitely did not choose the figures. The Author must have specified each figure to some degree. It could have been a more or less detailed sketch, or maybe only "copy this figure from this book, but change this detail here thus".
Quote:So, coming back to the earlier question, I believe one explanation for a diversity of influences is ironically that the person had (or was having) an education - just not one focused on illumination!
That is an interesting possibility!
But the Scribe was clearly ignorant of Euclean geometry, which was the basic math discipline at the time. So if he was a university student, he must not have been on any track that included it.
All the best, --stolfi