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A richly illuminated page from a c1480 manuscript copy of Thomas Bradwardine’s (1290/1300–1349) ‘Geometria Speculativa’ (1st attached image).
The historiated initial ‘G’ shows a curious allegorical image of geometry (detail in 2nd attached image).
As is traditional, the personification is female, but unusually she has a second male face on the back of her head, Janus-like. She also holds an armillary sphere, which is more usually an attribute used with allegories of astronomy. (Bradwardine did not discuss mathematical astronomy and seems to have had no serious interest in it.)
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Image from Universitat de València, Biblioteca Histórica, BH Ms. 50. https://roderic.uv.es/uv_ms_0050 [CC BY-NC 3.0].
Background on Bradwardine: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bradwardine/
#manuscript #illumination #historiated #HistMath #HistSci #HistArt #histodons
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A richly illuminated page from a c1480 manuscript copy of Thomas Bradwardine’s (1290/1300–1349) ‘Geometria Speculativa’ (1st attached image).
The historiated initial ‘G’ shows a curious allegorical image of geometry (detail in 2nd attached image).
As is traditional, the personification is female, but unusually she has a second male face on the back of her head, Janus-like. She also holds an armillary sphere, which is more usually an attribute used with allegories of astronomy. (Bradwardine did not discuss mathematical astronomy and seems to have had no serious interest in it.)
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Image from Universitat de València, Biblioteca Histórica, BH Ms. 50. https://roderic.uv.es/uv_ms_0050 [CC BY-NC 3.0].
Background on Bradwardine: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bradwardine/
#manuscript #illumination #historiated #HistMath #HistSci #HistArt #histodons
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A richly illuminated page from a c1480 manuscript copy of Thomas Bradwardine’s (1290/1300–1349) ‘Geometria Speculativa’ (1st attached image).
The historiated initial ‘G’ shows a curious allegorical image of geometry (detail in 2nd attached image).
As is traditional, the personification is female, but unusually she has a second male face on the back of her head, Janus-like. She also holds an armillary sphere, which is more usually an attribute used with allegories of astronomy. (Bradwardine did not discuss mathematical astronomy and seems to have had no serious interest in it.)
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Image from Universitat de València, Biblioteca Histórica, BH Ms. 50. https://roderic.uv.es/uv_ms_0050 [CC BY-NC 3.0].
Background on Bradwardine: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bradwardine/
#manuscript #illumination #historiated #HistMath #HistSci #HistArt #histodons
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A richly illuminated page from a c1480 manuscript copy of Thomas Bradwardine’s (1290/1300–1349) ‘Geometria Speculativa’ (1st attached image).
The historiated initial ‘G’ shows a curious allegorical image of geometry (detail in 2nd attached image).
As is traditional, the personification is female, but unusually she has a second male face on the back of her head, Janus-like. She also holds an armillary sphere, which is more usually an attribute used with allegories of astronomy. (Bradwardine did not discuss mathematical astronomy and seems to have had no serious interest in it.)
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Image from Universitat de València, Biblioteca Histórica, BH Ms. 50. https://roderic.uv.es/uv_ms_0050 [CC BY-NC 3.0].
Background on Bradwardine: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bradwardine/
#manuscript #illumination #historiated #HistMath #HistSci #HistArt #histodons
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A richly illuminated page from a c1480 manuscript copy of Thomas Bradwardine’s (1290/1300–1349) ‘Geometria Speculativa’ (1st attached image).
The historiated initial ‘G’ shows a curious allegorical image of geometry (detail in 2nd attached image).
As is traditional, the personification is female, but unusually she has a second male face on the back of her head, Janus-like. She also holds an armillary sphere, which is more usually an attribute used with allegories of astronomy. (Bradwardine did not discuss mathematical astronomy and seems to have had no serious interest in it.)
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Image from Universitat de València, Biblioteca Histórica, BH Ms. 50. https://roderic.uv.es/uv_ms_0050 [CC BY-NC 3.0].
Background on Bradwardine: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bradwardine/
#manuscript #illumination #historiated #HistMath #HistSci #HistArt #histodons