R. Sale > 12-04-2018, 11:03 PM
Rene,
An interesting explanation - and as you say, the results are automatic, simply mathematical. The surprise is not in the fact that the constructed system functions. The surprise is that this whole system, which functions as we can see, has been subtly built into the the seventeen symbol sequence at all.
We have three traditional systems, Greek, Roman and medieval. Each of them is suggested by a possible interpretation of the symbol in the fifth position. Each interpretation is given additional confirmation by specific spatial relationships. Then the three systems are combined so that the net value of the remainder increases by one for each calculation. If the Greek system started with alpha and read from left to right, then this clearly would not work the same way. So the Greek system was turned in the opposite direction, which is still a valid direction for Greek to be written. And as a result, the final, numerological sequence comes out the way it does. So, as I see it, that means it was planned in advance.
I can't say that this has a direct application. Perhaps it has no application. Or perhaps it has an application that I don't see, but someone else can. If the presence of the whole construction is or might be intentional, then shouldn't it be investigated. This is certainly more of a physical reality in the text than various other topics of investigation.
My view of the VMs is that it is an intentionally 'strange' creation in which certain traditional and historical information has been hidden. In You are not allowed to view links.
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Login to view. that information consists of the three traditional symbol sequences: Greek, Roman and medieval numerals. In f68v, it is a cosmos of contrasting appearance, built on the same highly unusual, if not unique structure as the Oresme representation of BNF Fr. 565. And in the VMs zodiac section, it is the institution of pairing, the disguised references to heraldry, both generally and specifically in the origins of the Catholic tradition of the red galero, and further into the positional confirmations by which the Fieschi identification is repeatedly affirmed. The problem seems to be that the papelonny pun will not function when the investigator is unfamiliar with the essential terminology and its references. This seem to be a situation with an increasing number of examples.