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Dear MapHisters:
This Vinland topic has yielded so many back-and-forth exchanges, how about if we just put together a conference and settle the matter? It would certainly be easier than trying to follow all these arguments and counter-arguments via e-mail!
Just a thought...
Cheers,
B. B. Olshin
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
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The University of the Arts
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Dec 12, 2009 11:50:02 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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This is a rather odd argument, that someone trying to forge
a medieval document would not be expected to imitate medieval
practices:
> And even before he could have lifted a pen, the forger
> had to sit down and dope out the Latin cryptograms he was going to
> incorporate into the inscriptions, an art not practiced since the
> middle ages. And to what end nowadays?
> Jim Enterline
And so, I think, is the following. Tracing a final fair copy in
ink is a time-honored drafting-room practice.
> McCrone's tale of a forger sitting down and painfully
> retracing, almost perfectly, a map he had just painfully fabricated
> is too much to swallow.
But I admit to lacking context on exactly what properties are
peculiarly explained by tracing, or about what indicia of long,
painful fabrication might have been observed in the physical
document.
Doug McIlroy
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