06-02-2017, 09:33 AM
@ JKP
Sometimes you are the most eloquent and wit driven guy around, but this statement begs to differ. The artist would not convey that here, knowing astronomy and astrology like he does as we know. If he wished to place a small solar system on the left of this folio he would have most certainly done the whole folio differently as in ellipses of bodies around the Sun. Other constellations? Which one in the night sky has so many bright stars neatly cluster and packed together?
You are right it is possible of the pleiade wrong about Tauris. I know this for a fact.
But this thread is about Eclipses and we have cast a shadow on this thread unless the folio has anything to with that which I doubt.
Quote:The 7 stars might represent the solar system or any of the other constellations that are symbolized by the number 7 (there are quite a few of them) and the similarity to Taurus (linguistically or numerically) might be coincidental.JKP,
Sometimes you are the most eloquent and wit driven guy around, but this statement begs to differ. The artist would not convey that here, knowing astronomy and astrology like he does as we know. If he wished to place a small solar system on the left of this folio he would have most certainly done the whole folio differently as in ellipses of bodies around the Sun. Other constellations? Which one in the night sky has so many bright stars neatly cluster and packed together?
You are right it is possible of the pleiade wrong about Tauris. I know this for a fact.
But this thread is about Eclipses and we have cast a shadow on this thread unless the folio has anything to with that which I doubt.