19-07-2017, 09:26 PM
These books were confiscated under the name of religious cleansing. If you've got piles and piles of books in the Rathaus, I wonder to what extent it would be considered stealing to take one. Maybe they were all taking books they liked, I don't know... I think it's impossible for us to enter a moral mind frame of people in such different times and circumstances.
What if certain books were to be destroyed but some were kept aside because they looked interesting from a medical perspective? Remember how Baresch mentioned in his letter to Kircher that he thought the book had belonged to a "good man" who had gone to Egypt in search of medicinal knowledge.
What if certain books were to be destroyed but some were kept aside because they looked interesting from a medical perspective? Remember how Baresch mentioned in his letter to Kircher that he thought the book had belonged to a "good man" who had gone to Egypt in search of medicinal knowledge.