21-12-2019, 11:57 PM
Thanks for the reference. I looked through the article. In fairness, it has to be said that he hits a lot of nails before getting to the Shirakatsi diagram.
And what it does say then isn't much: "google text search like this: ananias 7 th century phases of the moon"
Does he call the "Eight Phases of the Moon" diagram by Anania Shirakatsi a structural equivalent of the outer portion on the VMs cosmos?
Does he suggest any modification of the Shirakatsi diagram to make it more similar to the VMs cosmos?
Given that this article and the posting of E. Velinska, regarding the VMs cosmos and the Oresme illustration in BMF Fr. 565, both took place in 2014, perhaps they were unaware of each other's investigations.
I am also not aware that the combination of Oresme and Shirakatsi as a structural equivalent to the VMs cosmos has been suggested subsequently.
That shared structure consists of an outer circle connected to an inner circle by eight curved spokes, from Shirakatsi. And the inner circle of the wheel from Oresme is a cloud-based cosmic boundary with 43 undulations. And in the center of a simplified geocentric cosmos is an inverted T-O Earth. And the Earth is surrounded by stars.
Is there some alternative combination of illustrated sources that has all the same structural elements as the VMs cosmos? And then there is the visual appearance of the VMs cosmos. Each of the parts has been visually, but not structurally, altered - significantly different in appearance and intentionally changed. This is how the disguises, illusions and deceptions in some VMs illustrations can be reconciled. First the relevant parts must be found, then the proper parts can be combined to match the VMs illustrations. And then it helps to have a plausible explanation as to how those parts came together.
And what it does say then isn't much: "google text search like this: ananias 7 th century phases of the moon"
Does he call the "Eight Phases of the Moon" diagram by Anania Shirakatsi a structural equivalent of the outer portion on the VMs cosmos?
Does he suggest any modification of the Shirakatsi diagram to make it more similar to the VMs cosmos?
Given that this article and the posting of E. Velinska, regarding the VMs cosmos and the Oresme illustration in BMF Fr. 565, both took place in 2014, perhaps they were unaware of each other's investigations.
I am also not aware that the combination of Oresme and Shirakatsi as a structural equivalent to the VMs cosmos has been suggested subsequently.
That shared structure consists of an outer circle connected to an inner circle by eight curved spokes, from Shirakatsi. And the inner circle of the wheel from Oresme is a cloud-based cosmic boundary with 43 undulations. And in the center of a simplified geocentric cosmos is an inverted T-O Earth. And the Earth is surrounded by stars.
Is there some alternative combination of illustrated sources that has all the same structural elements as the VMs cosmos? And then there is the visual appearance of the VMs cosmos. Each of the parts has been visually, but not structurally, altered - significantly different in appearance and intentionally changed. This is how the disguises, illusions and deceptions in some VMs illustrations can be reconciled. First the relevant parts must be found, then the proper parts can be combined to match the VMs illustrations. And then it helps to have a plausible explanation as to how those parts came together.