Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens
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(11-01-2026, 05:18 PM)JoJo_Jost wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.That's nothing more than a theory, your theory. Wink

Practically every claim about the VMS is nothing more than a theory, somebody's theory.  Basically, the only things we can treat as "facts" are the digital images and the C14 date for the vellum.

Quote:The fact is that certain things on different pages can be found on others.
Not really.  Some drawings on some pages have varying degrees of similarity to drawings on other pages.  Whether they represent the same object or concept is "nothing more than a theory". 

There are several You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..  It may be tempting to say that they are the same plant.  But not even that is certain.  The Scribe may have copied the same drawing even though the two instances referred to different plants.  That is, the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. may be about Bruttadonna, and f102r1[3,2] was supposed to be Silphium; but the Author had no idea of what the roots of either looked like, so he told the Scribes to copy any root from any alchemist's herbal -- and the Herbal and Pharma scribes happened to use the same book as crib...

Quote:The vessels in the middle of the large map
You mean, the onion-dome towers in the margin of the Pharma pages.  Big Grin

Quote:vessels from these pages in the Balneological Section
There are no such things.  There are some details in Bio that look like stacks of cylinders and rings, and some Pharma jars also are stacks of cylinders and rings.  The similarity ends there; everything else is very different.

Quote:circles from the pages before the Balneological Section can be found in the  Balneological Section
Where? I don't see any such thing.

Quote:Distortions in astrology. Nymphs in astrology.
The same Scribe produced Cosmo, Zodiac, and Bio, in that order.  We can see the evolution of his "artistic skills".  His first nymphs were abysmally crude, but at some point after Taurus he learned to draw a passable naked woman, and used that same drawing to the end of Bio. (But of course this too is nothing more than a theory...)

Quote:it's one ‘manuscript’ in one (or two) ciphers.
That the VMS is in cipher is also nothing more than a theory. A theory born of desperation, from the nothing-more-than-a-theory that the language is "European" and the fact that the words don't look at all like "European" words...

All the best, --stolfi
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RE: Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens - by Jorge_Stolfi - 11-01-2026, 11:25 PM

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