16-11-2024, 08:22 PM
I think that comparing the Rosettes page with maps from thousands of years ago is somewhat anachronistic.
The fact that there is a walled city in the Rosettes does not have to mean that the entire page is a terrestrial map. It could well be that it is the place from whose meridian astronomical magnitudes were measured. That's why I think it's a representation of the medieval universe.
Nothing comparable to this Rosettes page has been found. That is why our only guide is the Voynich codex itself. There are other pages where those pipes that we see in the Rosettes appear, in the zodiacal section and in Quire 13. For the sake of consistency, we must think that the drawings mean the same thing. The medieval universe was a complicated machinery with nested spheres that had to be traversed, which is why I believe those pipes were drawn.
The fact that there is a walled city in the Rosettes does not have to mean that the entire page is a terrestrial map. It could well be that it is the place from whose meridian astronomical magnitudes were measured. That's why I think it's a representation of the medieval universe.
Nothing comparable to this Rosettes page has been found. That is why our only guide is the Voynich codex itself. There are other pages where those pipes that we see in the Rosettes appear, in the zodiacal section and in Quire 13. For the sake of consistency, we must think that the drawings mean the same thing. The medieval universe was a complicated machinery with nested spheres that had to be traversed, which is why I believe those pipes were drawn.