The word "theory" should be reserved for a scientific framework, well supported by facts. In common language it gets used for just about anything, including wild guesses.
I may be wrong (being unaware of all the sources and investigations) - you are the expert - but... isn't the fact that Rudolf II ever owned the manuscript about as well established as the reported opinion by the same Mnišovský in the same (Marci to Kircher) letter that the author was Roger Bacon? I mean, could they both be just guesses?
I may be wrong (being unaware of all the sources and investigations) - you are the expert - but... isn't the fact that Rudolf II ever owned the manuscript about as well established as the reported opinion by the same Mnišovský in the same (Marci to Kircher) letter that the author was Roger Bacon? I mean, could they both be just guesses?
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