Zodiac 101

[Jorge_Stolfi]

That only makes sense if you assume that the star-like images in the Voynich Manuscript are representations of stars in the night sky.  I do not.

They all look very much like the stars in the Cosmo diagrams that also have images of the Moon and Sun.  And a diagram in that section (f67r2) shows what can only be phases of the Moon; while the next page (f67v2), besides Sun and Moon, shows what look like schematic diagrams of constellations as seen in some other manuscripts.

Thus the natural assumption is that the Cosmo section is about astronomical stuff, that the stars there are indeed stars, and that so are that stars in the Zodiac section.  The claim that they are something else would require some evidence...

(The stars in the Starred Parags section, on the other hand, seem to be just bullets to mark the parags.  It is hard to imagine that they could carry some useful information, astronomical or otherwise.)

All the best, --stolfi