03-12-2018, 06:36 PM
I've been looking astrolabes in the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. It has the best collection of these beautiful astronomical instruments. There are astrolabes of all times, but I have seen those close in time to the Voynich. And I was amazed of the likeness of the pointers of the stars with two glyphs of the Voynich: 9 (the y Eva Alphabet) and specially the glyphs g and m.
In the astrolabes the pointers which mark the position of the stars have a rounded head and a pin that ends in a little hook. It's the same shape of (g) an (m) without the strokes (e) and (i) that complete these glyphs.
You can see it par example if browse the Astrolabe Catalogue, in the InvNo 35146, an Italian astrolabe, the 37527 from North Africa, and others like the InvNo 50934 and 53556
In the astrolabes the pointers which mark the position of the stars have a rounded head and a pin that ends in a little hook. It's the same shape of (g) an (m) without the strokes (e) and (i) that complete these glyphs.
You can see it par example if browse the Astrolabe Catalogue, in the InvNo 35146, an Italian astrolabe, the 37527 from North Africa, and others like the InvNo 50934 and 53556