16-07-2018, 11:42 AM
Thanks MarcoP,
"My impression (but this is subjective interpretation) is that it was a clumsy attempt to "normalize" the weird Voynichese design, by turning the two tailed stars into the conventional string connecting the two fish. "
Yes. And since we are discussing impressions, I will go even further:
As I said in my post I think this provides a pretty strong clue that the blue painter didn't have the same background as, or wasn't aware of the source material used by, the illustrator. He wasn't 'in".
As you say he tried to "normalize" something he perceived as a mistake or that was foreign to him.
Especially if the reason he painted the line going around the fish rather than in between them was because the word "mars" was already there. In that case that would mean the blue painter would have been totally removed from the original Voynich-making process.
I think this provides a good reason to not take the blue paint in Voynich illustrations as any kind of basis for our search for comparisons.
The implications of this, of course, extend to Q13 and to the astronomical drawings as well.
"My impression (but this is subjective interpretation) is that it was a clumsy attempt to "normalize" the weird Voynichese design, by turning the two tailed stars into the conventional string connecting the two fish. "
Yes. And since we are discussing impressions, I will go even further:
As I said in my post I think this provides a pretty strong clue that the blue painter didn't have the same background as, or wasn't aware of the source material used by, the illustrator. He wasn't 'in".
As you say he tried to "normalize" something he perceived as a mistake or that was foreign to him.
Especially if the reason he painted the line going around the fish rather than in between them was because the word "mars" was already there. In that case that would mean the blue painter would have been totally removed from the original Voynich-making process.
I think this provides a good reason to not take the blue paint in Voynich illustrations as any kind of basis for our search for comparisons.
The implications of this, of course, extend to Q13 and to the astronomical drawings as well.