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(This post was last modified: 3 hours ago by JustAnotherTheory.)
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.
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.