12-05-2020, 08:05 PM
About the rest corners.
Of course, we can't be sure about anything in the VMs. As for me, the "lunar" diagonal seems to be simplier for explanation. Possibly, only the left bottom corner needed the t/o scheme to show influential quarter-positions of the Moon. If the right top corner depicts the monthly quarters of the Moon (the Full Moon, the New Moon and the two crescents), it seems that there is no need in the t/o map.
The "solar" diagonal supposes its corners to denote the solar aspects in causing tides. I'm not sure that the author implies (if he does) the same kind of tides. It looks like exactly atmospheric tides. The shapes behind the suns remind clouds.
We already know that the Sun plays its role causing the neap and spring tides (four times a year, wholly). Obviously, there is no monthly division of the solar tides, so, maybe, the author considered the daily influence of the Sun on humors, as well. I'm not sure which view and school it can be, but, perhaps, the left top corner represents three "stations" of the Sun above the horizon: its rising at the East, its meridian and the dawning at the West. Of course, it is strange: if the daily lunar tides include positions of the Moon below the horizon, why are the only three solar points above (or at) the horizon counted?
Maybe, the matter is in the power which is considered by the author to cause those effects, and in different kinds of tides.
Of course, we can't be sure about anything in the VMs. As for me, the "lunar" diagonal seems to be simplier for explanation. Possibly, only the left bottom corner needed the t/o scheme to show influential quarter-positions of the Moon. If the right top corner depicts the monthly quarters of the Moon (the Full Moon, the New Moon and the two crescents), it seems that there is no need in the t/o map.
The "solar" diagonal supposes its corners to denote the solar aspects in causing tides. I'm not sure that the author implies (if he does) the same kind of tides. It looks like exactly atmospheric tides. The shapes behind the suns remind clouds.
We already know that the Sun plays its role causing the neap and spring tides (four times a year, wholly). Obviously, there is no monthly division of the solar tides, so, maybe, the author considered the daily influence of the Sun on humors, as well. I'm not sure which view and school it can be, but, perhaps, the left top corner represents three "stations" of the Sun above the horizon: its rising at the East, its meridian and the dawning at the West. Of course, it is strange: if the daily lunar tides include positions of the Moon below the horizon, why are the only three solar points above (or at) the horizon counted?
Maybe, the matter is in the power which is considered by the author to cause those effects, and in different kinds of tides.