27-11-2016, 08:45 PM
Very interesting!
I also believe that Aristotle's work is represented in the VMS. For the Rosette folio (for which I discussed Elements and the resulting climate before) I read Aristotle's works on natural philosophy (the big and the small works actually) and compared these to other pre-socratic philosophers (also dealing with Elements) in order to clarify if the Rosette folio could be a representation of the Elements, Exhalations and their interaction. There are several works of Aristotle, but one is (to me) an excellent match: Meteorologica. Displaying Exhalations (dry and wet), two suns, the primary mover, the interaction/mixture of the four Elements. I suspect and suggest the Rosette map to be a visualisation of meteorological phenomena. I have nearly finished a summary of that which I'll share shortly (splitting the Rosette folio into micro-imagery and using Nick Pelling's block paradigm)
An excellent (and first major) commentary in English on Aristotle's Meteorologica is Malcolm Wilson's 'Structure and method in Aristotle's Meteorologica' (2013)
Another (secondary) source is Vladimir Jancovic 'Reading the Skies' (2001), whose introduction on Aristotle's Meteorologica describes pretty neatly some of the features - see the attached comparison (left the text and on the right some microimagery from the Rosette folio).
I also believe that Aristotle's work is represented in the VMS. For the Rosette folio (for which I discussed Elements and the resulting climate before) I read Aristotle's works on natural philosophy (the big and the small works actually) and compared these to other pre-socratic philosophers (also dealing with Elements) in order to clarify if the Rosette folio could be a representation of the Elements, Exhalations and their interaction. There are several works of Aristotle, but one is (to me) an excellent match: Meteorologica. Displaying Exhalations (dry and wet), two suns, the primary mover, the interaction/mixture of the four Elements. I suspect and suggest the Rosette map to be a visualisation of meteorological phenomena. I have nearly finished a summary of that which I'll share shortly (splitting the Rosette folio into micro-imagery and using Nick Pelling's block paradigm)
An excellent (and first major) commentary in English on Aristotle's Meteorologica is Malcolm Wilson's 'Structure and method in Aristotle's Meteorologica' (2013)
Another (secondary) source is Vladimir Jancovic 'Reading the Skies' (2001), whose introduction on Aristotle's Meteorologica describes pretty neatly some of the features - see the attached comparison (left the text and on the right some microimagery from the Rosette folio).
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