14-03-2020, 09:54 AM
I understand that my theory may seem strange to many people, but the same happens to me with the linguistic theory of the VM. Isn't it weird that after more than hundred years of failed research, there is still someone who defends a phonetic meaning for the script?
For me the problem of the VM is simply epistemological: trying to understand why it made sense to 15th century scientists to write a book using only a set of astronomical symbols.
All the glyphs of the VM are astronomical symbols, even those that are numbers like 8 and 4 (Eva-d and Eva-l). The shape of the number 8 is clear and the 4 is its primitive Arabic form.
I take everything I say from contemporary works to the VM, the only way to someday get to know how to interpret it. You can see these numbers in at least three wheel charts on the following digitalized manuscripts:
MS Asmole 370 The Kalendarium of Nicholas of Lynn
MS 454 Lambeth Palace Library (looking for volvelle hashtag on Twitter)
BL Sloane 4100, recto
In all three volvelles, the numbers 8 and 4 appear in the inner circle, up and down, four times, separated by a cross in the Zodiac signs Geminis-Cancer on the one hand and Sagitarius-Capricornius for the other. The numbers obviously are the hours of ligth: 8 plus 8 in the day of Summer signs versus 4 plus 4 at night, and 4 plus 4 in the day of Winter signs versus 8 plus 8 during the night.
For me the problem of the VM is simply epistemological: trying to understand why it made sense to 15th century scientists to write a book using only a set of astronomical symbols.
All the glyphs of the VM are astronomical symbols, even those that are numbers like 8 and 4 (Eva-d and Eva-l). The shape of the number 8 is clear and the 4 is its primitive Arabic form.
I take everything I say from contemporary works to the VM, the only way to someday get to know how to interpret it. You can see these numbers in at least three wheel charts on the following digitalized manuscripts:
MS Asmole 370 The Kalendarium of Nicholas of Lynn
MS 454 Lambeth Palace Library (looking for volvelle hashtag on Twitter)
BL Sloane 4100, recto
In all three volvelles, the numbers 8 and 4 appear in the inner circle, up and down, four times, separated by a cross in the Zodiac signs Geminis-Cancer on the one hand and Sagitarius-Capricornius for the other. The numbers obviously are the hours of ligth: 8 plus 8 in the day of Summer signs versus 4 plus 4 at night, and 4 plus 4 in the day of Winter signs versus 8 plus 8 during the night.

