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[Antonio García Jiménez]

I don't know what that erudite demonstration has to do with what I have written before.

I'm simply saying that the series of o's on the f70r1 seem to symbolize the degrees of the sphere, and that may be the source of inspiration for the degree symbol when it was standardized in the 16th century.

In this image of a work by Giovanni Fontana, a contemporary of the Voynich authors, the small circles have been replaced by stars. But we also see those little circles in the center of many of the stars drawn in the VM.


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