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Icon and Design

IN T H E S E T W O M A N U S C R I P T S we discover diagrammatic and mackerel's tail" (full bow, slim stern), it would achieve
drawings of animals that are each held tightly in a surprising greater speed, balance, and steerage. This drawing illustrates
space: a giant fish wears a ship's hull, and blackbirds fly in Baker's theory, which in application gave strength and
formation through a mosaic of text. Baker lived in an era advantage to the English fighting the Spanish Armada.
when ships were built without drawn plans. Below we see
his revolutionary design for an Elizabethan warship, later In contrast to the practical clarity of Baker's thought,
called a galleon. He studied the anatomy of fish, and from Knopf's drawing opposite is the personal enigmatic expression
them learned that if he designed his ship with a "cod's head of a mind gripped by illness. His birds stare, seemingly
looking for our attention, and to assess our next move.

MATTHEW BAKER The fish It is likely that Baker The ship The upper decks of the Fragments of Ancient
drew with a quill dipped in iron- ship appear curved toward us at English Shipwrightry
Master shipwright, mathematician, and author of gall ink, adding washes of color both ends. Baker did not intend 1586
Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrightry ( 1 5 8 6 ) , with a fine brush. Exquisite details this. It is simply how we read his 101/2 x 153/8 in
the earliest geometrically defined elevations, in this drawing include the lips of perspective. In just one drawing he (270 x 390 mm)
plans, and sections of ships. Baker initiated the fish, the expression of its eye, has displayed more angles of his MATTHEW BAKER
the scientific practice of naval architecture and the carefully observed gills, design than we would expect to
and applied hydrodynamics, based on his fins, and scales. see from a single viewpoint
studies of fish.