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(4 hours ago)JustAnotherTheory wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It seems that a lot of the imagery of the VMS has its place perfectly in the period between 1400 and 1470. Taccola, Martini and Kyeser seem to indicate this. But then again, the text, the encryption and the supposed Alberti disk on f57v, as well as the containers that look like ivory vessels, point to about 60 years later than that. Not to mention the otherworldly imagery of the cosmological quire.
Either we are looking at some unknown genius, a multitalented polymath who matches nobody known in history, or the VMS is not from the early 15th century.
Or there's the possibility that Kyeser wrote the VMS in his later years while he was living as a lone hermit in the mountains, lol.
I've modelled You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. a lot..I really thought I had something.. I wrote a whole paper on it and shared it with René and he gently pointed out that it was almost entirely Aai bullshit... I still believe there's something there but I can't land it unfortunately...
But I agree, the combination of influences is quite specific and suggests a later date.. although I think Kyeser was dead by then...