July 9, 2023 Hi, Gerardo I admire your effort to pin down the right names for traditional origami models, and I'm grateful for all that I learned as a result of your puzzle purse investigations.
But origami nomenclature is a lot like botanical nomenclature before Carl Linnaeus published *Species Plantarum* in 1753 -- a mess! * You set us all a good example by carefully documenting the names/creators of models as much as you can, but I have to agree with Dave's pessimistic conclusion. Do tell us, please, what you chose to call the model for your class and how they liked the model and name. Best wishes, Karen *Karen Reeds and Isabelle Charmantier, "Botany" entry, *Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World: Micropaedia*, ed. Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal, and Charles Fantazzi (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 933-935. Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2023 11:20:10 +0000 > From: David Mitchell <davidgrahammitch...@outlook.com> > To: "origami@lists.digitalorigami.com" > <origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> > Subject: [Origami] Name of the puzzle purse in Spanish? I think we must also be careful not to believe that' traditional' designs > necessarily had a 'traditional' name. 'La bolsa', for instance, is a title (in Spanish) that only appears once > (as far as we know) for a design that only appears once in a Spanish book > (as far as we know, prior to 1970). Many 'traditional' designs have multiple names in the literature, multiple > names, that is, in the same language, not just in different languages. So deciding what a design should properly be called is difficult, if not > impossible ... Dave from Karen Reeds karenmre...@gmail.com
