22-09-2026, 06:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 22-09-2026, 06:47 AM by JustAnotherTheory.)
(21-09-2026, 12:53 PM)ololololo wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It seems that the author’s knowledge, particularly the knowledge he presented in the book, was quite modern for his time. For example, he must have had some understanding of herbalism and astrology.
And yet doesn't know what a lobster looks like, despite probably having access to manuscripts depicting lobsters.
A lot of the illustrations in the VMS are simply dumb. The animals in Q13 next to the mermaid are totally anatomically wrong. Basic things like proportions, body types of animals are comparable to drawings made by absolute art-less amateur peasants, if not worse.
In fact, I'd even go as far as to say the VMS "artist" hasn't the slightest clue what a lobster even is. The same goes for other animals. What kind of person has never seen dogs, horses and lobsters?
And yet, the drawings in the astronomical section have a sublime original artistic feel to them. It is so incredibly strange.