(05-01-2020, 11:47 AM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
Agreed it is a possibility that it is a list of places. One of the words seems to match the rosettes TO, if you exclude the scribbled character before it.
It could be a statement of information about eastern Asia, as more was known and added to contemporary maps like that of Fra Mauro via information provided on Nicolo Conti's return in 1439, but neither the rosettes nor quire 13 appear to include this info in my interpretations, being older forms of the ecumene, or inhabited earth, which only go so far as western India. This might have been the place to scootch in a bit of that information, if it is about Asia. I can't think of another reason to do a writeup or list of places regarding Asia but not do the same for Africa and Europe.
If it matches the Oresme scheme, then it could be a writeup about the waters of Earth. This is also possible since this was a changing view from the previous concepts of mountain surrounded by ocean, and the Aristolean spheres, and might be an explanation of perfect spheres of earth and water with different centers of gravity, leading to the ecume floating to the top, as there was contempory discussion at the time which continued for centuries. Below is a later (early 16th century) Sacrobosco diagram including schemes for reconciling the elements of earth and water while maintaining the perfect spheres idea. I think You are not allowed to view links.
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