-JKP- > 02-11-2016, 02:39 AM
Davidsch > 02-11-2016, 04:05 PM
(31-10-2016, 11:26 PM)DarrenW Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This discussion about soap, minerals and the recent posts suggesting similarities between the VM Zodiac section and Lapidary texts (texts about minerals and gemstones) lead me to wonder if this object might be soapstone.
Curiously, the alchemical symbol for soapstone looks like an empty T-O map. Perhaps the diagram at the centre of the VMS f86v3 could be a reference or "visual metaphor" for soapstone, rather than an unfinished T-O map?
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Prof. Rampling writing in an essay found in the new Yale Voynich book suggests that the balneological section is not alchemical but features a kind of visual metaphor that could be paralleled by alchemical illustrations. I wonder if this "visual metaphor" could extend to the script itself (and to other parts of the VMS)?
There are a number of similarities between the VMS script and alchemical symbols, for example. I've included a table excerpted from M.E. D'Imperio's The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma (p.120). The source of this appears to be "Die Geheimsymbole der Alchymie, Arzneikunde und Astrologie des Mittelalters" by G.W.Gessmann, 1922.
The most notable similarities being the EVA:k and EVA:t symbols meaning "to prepare" and "urine" respectively. (The symbol for "month" also looks like the symbol found on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.)
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Quote:Research in 2011 by Ropars confirms that one can identify the direction of the sun to within a few degrees in both cloudy and twilight conditions using Iceland spar and the naked eye. The process involves moving the stone across the visual field to reveal a yellow entoptic pattern on the fovea of the eye. Alternatively, a dot can be placed on top of the crystal so that when you look at it from below, two dots appear, because the light is “depolarised” and fractured along different axes. The crystal can then be rotated until the two points have the same luminosity. The angle of the top face now gives the direction of the sun.Which would explain the two 'eyes' in the blue cube.
-JKP- > 14-06-2020, 05:54 PM
(31-10-2016, 11:26 PM)DarrenW Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
There are a number of similarities between the VMS script and alchemical symbols, for example. I've included a table excerpted from M.E. D'Imperio's The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma (p.120). The source of this appears to be "Die Geheimsymbole der Alchymie, Arzneikunde und Astrologie des Mittelalters" by G.W.Gessmann, 1922.
The most notable similarities being the EVA:k and EVA:t symbols meaning "to prepare" and "urine" respectively. (The symbol for "month" also looks like the symbol found on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.)