10-02-2022, 10:30 AM
The main planetary aspects are from the Western tradition, from Ptolemy, and made known in Europe in the Middle Ages through Arabic astrology. I believe that at the time of the Voynich, the first third of the fifteenth century, the symbols of the aspects, like the zodiacal symbols (ideograms), were not yet standardized.
In the series of glyphs that are repeated in f57v, I believe that several of them, the rarest, are incipient symbols of planetary aspects. For example these
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The first can be the trine aspect, which would later become a triangle and the second the quincunx, which represents the distance of 150º between two planets.
Also this other from the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. series can be another astronomical symbol
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This would be the semisquare, 45º distance between one planet and another
In the series of glyphs that are repeated in f57v, I believe that several of them, the rarest, are incipient symbols of planetary aspects. For example these
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The first can be the trine aspect, which would later become a triangle and the second the quincunx, which represents the distance of 150º between two planets.
Also this other from the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. series can be another astronomical symbol
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This would be the semisquare, 45º distance between one planet and another