Programmatically compute similarity between zodiacs

[Gioynich]

I am curious about the 'Lund astro clock' which appears quite close to the Voynich MS in the cluster diagram. I checked and Marco also included it in his earlier study but it seems to not have come out too close.

From some not very detailed images of it, it seems to have two zodiac cycles. Which one was used? Are there close-up images of it?

Hi Rene,

I used this cycle (some of the signs are covered but I was able to extract almost all the features I needed).



I didn't know there was a second one, do you happen to have a picture?

Regarding why it's close to the VMS: they are not similar, in fact they are not connected by a direct edge in the graph, but 'Lundo astro clock' is deemed somewhat similar to Wellcome Library, London, MS 49, Apocalypse (see below)



and Ms. Rh. 172, Aurora Consurgens (see below)



These three zodiacs are close to each other and loosely connected with the main 15th century German/Switzerland cluster the VMS is part of, this is why they appear close to it.

In general, what represents similarity is the size of edges, rather than position. Since I know you are technical, here is the paper about the visualization algorithm I used, in case anyone is interested and has time to spare: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.