This is probably just a coincidence, but it looks cool:
The MS on the right is the
Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt (British Library, Add MS 23391). It's a 13th century Arabic treatise on hydraulic machinery. I thought some of the machines looked a bit like VMS plant roots.
EDIT: I rotated the Arabic picture upside-down so that it matches the orientation of the VMS root.