17-04-2023, 05:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 17-04-2023, 05:40 PM by hatoncat.
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Well, I've always liked movies like Indiana Jones and archeology from an early age, but perhaps the most recent event that somewhat shaped my interest was visiting the National Palace Museum in Taipei in 2017. There is a calligraphy work by Zhang Xu: He was kind of like the Jackson Pollock of the Tang Dynasty, or the other way around 
. Around six months ago, I searched Wikipedia to find the name and type of calligraphy: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as I wanted to find out more info.
While I won't suggest the Voynichese is or isn't asemic writing: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., the illustrations have at least some, and I've always had an interest in shapeless forms; in college chemistry courses, I learned atoms without a lattice are amorphous- such as glass, as opposed to quartz.
While I think it would be quite time consuming to carbon date every page of the VMS- I am curious if there have been any date differences between the drawings and the text itself. Maybe someone has the answer- I apologize if I haven't looked enough, but as asemic writing is defined as ""having no specific semantic content", or "without the smallest unit of meaning".You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. With the non-specificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning, which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret. All of this is similar to the way one would deduce meaning from an abstract work of art." The VM illustrations do appear to use quite a bit of asemic transformations- ambiguities which today might look like cell membranes, to micelles, to mammalian anatomy, to vegetables. But also, if a clear distinction could be made from the date of the illustrations- that is, if the illustrator lived during the same time as the text writer (or was the same person), then focusing on the text alone should not be prioritized, as the clues in the image could reveal more. Yesterday I read the in D'Imperio's Elegant Enigma (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) claims about Roger Bacon having anachronistically developed a compound microscope, and thought, how hilarious and unlikely it would be if he developed the resolution of a scanning electron microscope, which has the resolution to depict organelles instead of the macroscopic plant stems and bulbs in some of his drawings. If it were asemic, it would be more likely to interpret as being a plant...or a bath, but as Freud supposedly said, sometimes "a cigar is just a cigar"
By the 1600s, compound microscopy was You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., I haven't checked if there was any trade or purchases of Dutch microscopes by owners such as Tepenecz. Again, it might look obvious that the illustrations were written at the same time as the Voynichese, as the text is too neatly surrounding the drawings, but that could suggest the writing was written significantly later maybe not 100 years, but 50?
. Around six months ago, I searched Wikipedia to find the name and type of calligraphy: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as I wanted to find out more info.While I won't suggest the Voynichese is or isn't asemic writing: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., the illustrations have at least some, and I've always had an interest in shapeless forms; in college chemistry courses, I learned atoms without a lattice are amorphous- such as glass, as opposed to quartz.
While I think it would be quite time consuming to carbon date every page of the VMS- I am curious if there have been any date differences between the drawings and the text itself. Maybe someone has the answer- I apologize if I haven't looked enough, but as asemic writing is defined as ""having no specific semantic content", or "without the smallest unit of meaning".You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. With the non-specificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning, which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret. All of this is similar to the way one would deduce meaning from an abstract work of art." The VM illustrations do appear to use quite a bit of asemic transformations- ambiguities which today might look like cell membranes, to micelles, to mammalian anatomy, to vegetables. But also, if a clear distinction could be made from the date of the illustrations- that is, if the illustrator lived during the same time as the text writer (or was the same person), then focusing on the text alone should not be prioritized, as the clues in the image could reveal more. Yesterday I read the in D'Imperio's Elegant Enigma (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) claims about Roger Bacon having anachronistically developed a compound microscope, and thought, how hilarious and unlikely it would be if he developed the resolution of a scanning electron microscope, which has the resolution to depict organelles instead of the macroscopic plant stems and bulbs in some of his drawings. If it were asemic, it would be more likely to interpret as being a plant...or a bath, but as Freud supposedly said, sometimes "a cigar is just a cigar"
By the 1600s, compound microscopy was You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., I haven't checked if there was any trade or purchases of Dutch microscopes by owners such as Tepenecz. Again, it might look obvious that the illustrations were written at the same time as the Voynichese, as the text is too neatly surrounding the drawings, but that could suggest the writing was written significantly later maybe not 100 years, but 50?