31-12-2016, 09:17 PM
IMO, we are looking at two things that haven't been clearly separated. That is because these two things were often used together in medieval illustrations. Those things are appearance and placement. They are used in conjunction to promote identification, but they are in fact separate and independent.
So the first thing is appearance. This is an interesting topic and worthy of further discussion, but I'd rather move the focus to the topic of placement, which seems to be more in need of recognition. A similarity of appearance might be casual or random. The comparison of appearance between two images has a subjective component. Placement can eliminate the subjective aspect. Positioning is a statement or measurement of location. When it is possible to make a measurement of location, the comparison of placement has no subjective component. The comparison of measurable placement is objective.
Therefore, when the comparison of placement is the same in a VMs sequence and in a historical sequence, it is more significant than the comparison of appearance on which it is built. To show that VMs symbols can be recognized in the symbol universe is one thing. To show that recognized symbols exist in a structure that matches the objective measurements of a known, historical, symbol structure is something else, IMO.
A similarity of appearance *could* exist by chance, without ulterior meaning. A similarity of placement and measurement is much more like to be an intentional construction. Intentional construction surely implies a purpose.
Given three properly placed points of contact between the VMs 4 x 17 Sequence and the Greek alphabet, [in a highly simplified and overly imaginative scenario] one *could* simply take the Greek letters and equate them with their VMs positional correspondents. This would seem to make fairly respectable, attempted system for hidden communication - if it worked. However the VMs obviously does not conform to that simple possibility. Could it really be that easy?
In addition to having this correspondence with the Greek alphabet, appearance and placement in the 4 x 17 Sequence also show correspondences with the medieval numerical system, as shown on Typus Arithmetica, and with the Roman numeral system. So there are three systems of correspondence to be considered - to contend with.
Is there more to be added to this??
So the first thing is appearance. This is an interesting topic and worthy of further discussion, but I'd rather move the focus to the topic of placement, which seems to be more in need of recognition. A similarity of appearance might be casual or random. The comparison of appearance between two images has a subjective component. Placement can eliminate the subjective aspect. Positioning is a statement or measurement of location. When it is possible to make a measurement of location, the comparison of placement has no subjective component. The comparison of measurable placement is objective.
Therefore, when the comparison of placement is the same in a VMs sequence and in a historical sequence, it is more significant than the comparison of appearance on which it is built. To show that VMs symbols can be recognized in the symbol universe is one thing. To show that recognized symbols exist in a structure that matches the objective measurements of a known, historical, symbol structure is something else, IMO.
A similarity of appearance *could* exist by chance, without ulterior meaning. A similarity of placement and measurement is much more like to be an intentional construction. Intentional construction surely implies a purpose.
Given three properly placed points of contact between the VMs 4 x 17 Sequence and the Greek alphabet, [in a highly simplified and overly imaginative scenario] one *could* simply take the Greek letters and equate them with their VMs positional correspondents. This would seem to make fairly respectable, attempted system for hidden communication - if it worked. However the VMs obviously does not conform to that simple possibility. Could it really be that easy?
In addition to having this correspondence with the Greek alphabet, appearance and placement in the 4 x 17 Sequence also show correspondences with the medieval numerical system, as shown on Typus Arithmetica, and with the Roman numeral system. So there are three systems of correspondence to be considered - to contend with.
Is there more to be added to this??