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[Antonio García Jiménez]

Don't worry, I just try not to repeat the same things all the time in order to move forward. Let's see these astronomical tables


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Perhaps originally, the sign above the G (Gradus) and M (Minutae) was an alphabetical abbreviation, the letter a, but what seems clear is that this sign increasingly became two minims, two small stripes that may be at the origin of the symbols that we use as angular measurements.

Now we don't use letters. We use º ' '', the symbol º for degrees, ' for minutes and '' for seconds. They are minutes and seconds of arc, no time.

In A History of Mathematical Notations, by Florian Cajori, I read that the symbols for angular measurements came into use in the 16th century. But these symbols were not invented by anyone, they must have a history and what I believe is that those medieval superscript signs are in their origin.

What relationship does this have with the Voynich? Quite obvious if you think of glyphs like Eva-o, i, ii, iin and consider the whole script as a system of positions in the celestial sphere