stellar > 06-10-2016, 07:32 PM
(06-10-2016, 07:11 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Thread summary: John Dee hid his graduation date in a block of blue cheese with eyes.
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Marco, soap is an idea I haven't heard before. Would there have been any kind based on plant material?
EllieV > 06-10-2016, 07:56 PM
(06-10-2016, 07:24 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I remember there is a genius sapon (Latin: soap) for a family of plants much used in traditional soaps. Don't remember much else about them - soap comes in a bottle for me
ReneZ > 06-10-2016, 08:10 PM
(04-10-2016, 08:34 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I did some rough calculations. Assuming the page to be 23.5cm high, this works out at 3368 pixels high.
The cube is 63 mm between its two long edges.
The "u" in SAU thus works out to be 8.5 pixels high, or 0.6mm high. That's pretty tiny....
julian > 06-10-2016, 08:23 PM
(06-10-2016, 08:10 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(04-10-2016, 08:34 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I did some rough calculations. Assuming the page to be 23.5cm high, this works out at 3368 pixels high.
The cube is 63 mm between its two long edges.
The "u" in SAU thus works out to be 8.5 pixels high, or 0.6mm high. That's pretty tiny....
Hi David,
something seems to have gone wrong here. The "cube"'s long edge is about 7mm. I measured this from
the new Yale book, which has the pages reproduced at approximately the original size.
The ratio 3368 pixels for 23.5 cm (approximate height of the book) is certainly close enough.
Normal Voynich letters (Eva o, a) in the recipes section are about 1 mm high, which is a good reference
for comparison.
In general, I consider it very possible that there is writing under the paint here. However, I
would expect that such writing would have been written in ink, i.e. the same ink used for all writing.
davidjackson > 06-10-2016, 08:26 PM
Quote:something seems to have gone wrong here. The "cube"'s long edge is about 7mm.
Koen G > 06-10-2016, 08:37 PM
EllieV > 06-10-2016, 08:55 PM
(06-10-2016, 08:37 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Ellie - I think cubes are very normal shapes for soap to be in - you let it harden and cut it up. I just wonder if the inclusion of potential soap would point to one of the plants around it as being useful for making soap. Since there seems to be at least some thematic order in the small plants section, one could expect a connection.
(06-10-2016, 08:55 PM)EllieV Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(06-10-2016, 08:37 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Ellie - I think cubes are very normal shapes for soap to be in - you let it harden and cut it up. I just wonder if the inclusion of potential soap would point to one of the plants around it as being useful for making soap. Since there seems to be at least some thematic order in the small plants section, one could expect a connection.
I agree - the cubes are normal shape for soap. My grandma used to make laundry soap and cut it in cubes.
Regarding foreign objects among the plants - we have at least the frog precedent.
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MarcoP > 06-10-2016, 09:17 PM
(06-10-2016, 07:56 PM)EllieV Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(06-10-2016, 07:24 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I remember there is a genius sapon (Latin: soap) for a family of plants much used in traditional soaps. Don't remember much else about them - soap comes in a bottle for me
Saponaria (soapwort). Here is example from Egerton 747
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Koen - here is example of "cube" soap
-JKP- > 06-10-2016, 11:15 PM
(06-10-2016, 07:11 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Thread summary: John Dee hid his graduation date in a block of blue cheese with eyes.
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Marco, soap is an idea I haven't heard before. Would there have been any kind based on plant material?
Davidsch > 06-10-2016, 11:39 PM