Alyx Black > 02-02-2019, 04:55 PM
(01-02-2019, 09:34 PM)Linda Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Linda, I may have seen that blog. I believe she has a north European origin of Sami’s? Same person? Thank you for that terrific pic that really added another great pic to this thread!!!!!(01-02-2019, 04:52 PM)Alyx Black Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Taken from website Muslimheritage.com.
I think folks also copied from other books to gain knowledge, but the knowledge was out there. Not every book is going to survive antiquity so we don’t know everything there was out there.
In the 15th century, a Turkish surgeon, Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu (1385-1468), author of the famous manual of surgery Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye, did not hesitate to illustrate the details of obstetric and gynaecologic procedures or to depict women treating and performing procedures on female patients. He also worked with female surgeons, while his male colleaques in the West reported against the female healers.
Female surgeons in Anatolia, generally performed some gynaecological procedures like surgical managements of fleshy grows of the clitoris in the female genitalia, imperforated female pudenda, warts and red pustules arising in the female pudenda, perforations and eruptions of the uterus, abnormal labours, and extractions of the abnormal foetus or placenta. Interestingly in the Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye, we find illustrations in the forms of miniatures indicating female surgeons. It can therefore be speculated that they reflect the early recognition (15th century) of female surgeons with paediatric neurosurgical diseases like foetal hydrocephalus and macrocephalus.
I don't doubt there were those in that time period who may have had knowledge of such things. But how are you going to tie these images to a historical account of same when the drawings are so difficult to trace back to an origin? It is easy to say this looks like this and that looks like that, but to convince anyone that this is what was intended, it has to pull together in a specific way. Like if you could tie each image to drawings in the text you mentioned, or some other one, or various ones of which people in that field would have been aware.
For instance, with my geographical theory, i see connections like making fun of certain repeated map styles over time, so i need to find out if and where one could have seen these things to be able to comment in this way, and build up a backstory of how the whole idea came to fruition. I dont think many people go for my theory, but i just recently realized that while i was focusing on nymphs, i had allowed things drawn alike to stand for different things in reality. So i am now going back over it to resolve this, and in so doing, i found some similarly drawn things that ended up making sense and fitting with where i had put them, so for now i feel like i am still at least partially on track, although i have a lot more to do to pull it together more tightly.
That is not to say you couldn't also be correct in your thinking, i mean, it is called the biological section because many others have had the idea that it shows things similar to what you are suggesting, so in that sense you probably have a head start.
Have you seen Ellie Velinska's blog? It might help you build upon your idea. Here is her composite.
Linda > 02-02-2019, 05:12 PM
(02-02-2019, 04:55 PM)Alyx Black Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.“(01-02-2019, 09:34 PM)Linda Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Linda, I may have seen that blog. I believe she has a north European origin of Sami’s? Same person? Thank you for that terrific pic that really added another great pic to this thread!!!!!(01-02-2019, 04:52 PM)Alyx Black Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Taken from website Muslimheritage.com.
I think folks also copied from other books to gain knowledge, but the knowledge was out there. Not every book is going to survive antiquity so we don’t know everything there was out there
Have you seen Ellie Velinska's blog? It might help you build upon your idea. Here is her composite.
Alyx Black > 02-02-2019, 05:20 PM
(01-02-2019, 11:03 PM)Linda Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Yes exactly, everyone for a long time started with the words, which I think we may or may not ever distinguish. If they were from a very isolated place they may have derived their own alphabet. So I started looking at the words and what others have found, got frustrated went to the botanical ( I have taken botany and a gardener), and got frustrated moved on to the figures. So when I saw this portion of the page that was just what looked to me as the fallopian area, i started to look at the biological or what they call balneological nymphs,and I started to look at it in a different way. A friend stopped over and I told her about the VM and showed her that snippet and asked what does this look like her first was Fallopian tubes, I was astounded because sometimes she’s not the sharpest tool in the tool box. My first impressions of the nymphs is that they were like indicators like flow symbols where today we might use flow charts symbols and arrows. I thought they might show “flow”?➡️(01-02-2019, 10:11 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The whole page has always looked anatomical to me, and yes, my first impression of the "coils" on the right was that they might represent a colon, and that the body part on the left middle was a penis and testicles. The ones on the lower left and right, I wasn't sure whether they might be bladder or uterus (or both).
Having said that, I agree with the comments above that the VMS appears to be shrouded in layers of meaning or combinations of symbology. Many aspects appear to have multiple interpretations and, throughout the manuscript, one gets the feeling that this is deliberate.
Agreed re layers and combinations. I was looking at Plato's analogies recently.
I guess we have to think outside the cave, so to speak.
(02-02-2019, 05:12 PM)Linda Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You know while perusing so many websites I did see that mention of water drumming, but may have not read entire article. I need to start a proper notebook.(02-02-2019, 04:55 PM)Alyx Black Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.“(01-02-2019, 09:34 PM)Linda Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Linda, I may have seen that blog. I believe she has a north European origin of Sami’s? Same person? Thank you for that terrific pic that really added another great pic to this thread!!!!!(01-02-2019, 04:52 PM)Alyx Black Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Taken from website Muslimheritage.com.
I think folks also copied from other books to gain knowledge, but the knowledge was out there. Not every book is going to survive antiquity so we don’t know everything there was out there
Have you seen Ellie Velinska's blog? It might help you build upon your idea. Here is her composite.
The one you are describing belongs to Claudette Cohen. I think she identifies this particular diagram as indicating water drumming.
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Linda > 03-02-2019, 09:09 PM
(03-02-2019, 04:50 PM)Alyx Black Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Adding one more bath pic, due to the nature of the barrel, however, the caption says couple.