Diagrams in medieval manuscripts of Greek mathematical and astronomical works can seem peculiar for a modern reader, given their persistent and widespread tendency to represent more geometric regularity than the argument requires and their usual visual inaccuracy in depicting the mathematical objects discussed in the text. Although most scholars believe that these tendencies go back to the original Greek authors, in a recent paper I argued that these odd features should not be attributed to Greek authors, but to transmission. My main argument there is based on experiments made with university students who played the role of copyists. In this paper, I show that the vestiges of the changes caused by transmission are present in the very diagrams of the extant manuscripts. I analyze four diagrams taken from Aristarchus's On Sizes.

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对中世纪手稿数学图中出现过高规格和对视觉准确性无动于衷的抱怨

鉴于希腊数学和天文著作的中世纪手稿中的图表对于现代读者来说似乎是特有的，因为它们持久且普遍地倾向于表现出比论证所要求的更多的几何规律性，并且它们在描述本文所讨论的数学对象时通常存在视觉上的误差。尽管大多数学者认为这些趋势可以追溯到最初的希腊作家，但我在最近的一篇论文中认为，这些奇怪的特征不应归因于希腊作家，而应归因于传播。我的主要论点是基于对扮演抄写员的大学生进行的实验。在本文中，我证明了在现有手稿的示意图中，存在着由传播引起的变化的痕迹。我分析了从阿里斯塔丘斯的四幅图关于尺寸。