Erisanne
Right! They were able to be accurate, but often didn't choose to. Why not? There's the rub! Was there a reason? How random is all of this? That's what makes TdM fascinating.
To me, the answer is simple! For whether you go by Hebrew numbering or bardic numbering, A or alef is still numbered 1; and of the three mothers in Hebrew (alef, mem, shin), alef is the one that stands for the letters (that is, the trumps), being the first of them (not counting zero, out of which they arise). (Mem or M is 40 in Hebrew, the number of pips, while shin or S is 16 by bardic reckoning, the number of court cards.)PIRUCHO said:2-If there is not two other legs at the end of the table :
Why can not one see the fourth leg on the card ?
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Again: If not why can not one see the fourth leg on the card ?
To be precise, the visible leg is on a line with the front of the table, yet it implies a table shorter than the surface presented us (unless part of it sticks out to our right, like a workbench or something).Moonbow* said:
Camoin -----------------------> Noblet
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I agree that its puzzling that the table was drawn and cut this way, my view is that the table leg at the far right (as we look at it) is the one closest to Le Bateleur. Its the front leg of the table which is out of our picture. Pespective is difficult though, their drawing wasn't particlarly accurate in places... but then, amazingly accurate in others!
Certainly the one on the right is parallel with the near one on the left, not the far one, in both cases. (Just giving you mine.)Moonbow* said:I disagree that its precise venicebard. No one knows the true aspect of this card, and its just not clear at all, which is why its good to discuss and try to see other people's points of view.
Merriam-Webster said:mountebank\MOUN-tih-bank\
noun
1 : a person who sells quack medicines from a platform
2 : a boastful unscrupulous pretender : charlatan
In his newspaper column, Gavin criticized the talk-radio host as "a mountebank whose 'expert' opinions and advice are complete hooey."
"Bring your five-minute tales related to all things fraudulent and pseudo. Flimflammers, mountebanks, poseurs and snake oil salesmen especially welcome." — From a literary events listing by Gina Webb in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 25, 2011
"Mountebank" derives from the Italian "montimbanco," which was formed by combining the verb "montare" ("to mount"), the preposition "in" (converted to "im," meaning "in" or "on"), and the noun "banco" ("bench"). Put these components together and you can deduce the literal origins of "mountebank" as someone mounted on a bench — the "bench" being the platform on which charlatans from the 16th and 17th centuries would stand to sell their phony medicines. Mountebanks often included various forms of light entertainment on stage in order to attract customers. Later, extended uses of "mountebank" referred to someone who falsely claims to have knowledge about a particular subject or a person who simply pretends to be something he or she is not in order to gain attention.