04-08-2021, 07:36 PM
Somewhere I have read that the bottom left drawing on the Rosettes page cannot be a clock because clocks did not have second hands in that time. It is one more sign of incompetence, that what is really needed to face the Voynich is a deep knowledge of medieval culture.
The drawing on the Rosettes page it's a sketch of an astronomical clock. The clock has two hands because one represents the sun and the other the moon. We can still see it on the famous Prague clock, which is contemporary with the VM, at least its oldest part.
But it's even more interesting. The hands inside the sphere form a triangle with the vertices ending in little circles. It is the same figure, a trine or trigone, that we see in f67v2, a folio that shows the planetary aspects that the sun forms with the moon. On this folio there are little heads at the vertices, one from the sun and the other two from the moon. The distance of 120 degrees to either side of the sun.
A correct iconographic reading is essential to understand the Voynich
The drawing on the Rosettes page it's a sketch of an astronomical clock. The clock has two hands because one represents the sun and the other the moon. We can still see it on the famous Prague clock, which is contemporary with the VM, at least its oldest part.
But it's even more interesting. The hands inside the sphere form a triangle with the vertices ending in little circles. It is the same figure, a trine or trigone, that we see in f67v2, a folio that shows the planetary aspects that the sun forms with the moon. On this folio there are little heads at the vertices, one from the sun and the other two from the moon. The distance of 120 degrees to either side of the sun.
A correct iconographic reading is essential to understand the Voynich

