Re: VMS -- Interesting Ancient Texts

["Dana F. Scott" <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is another wheel, not doubt familiar to many of you, that may be of some
interest. Perhaps it has already been discussed.

Luopan:
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMLuopanLarge.gif
http://www.namodro.cz/w-baraka/1-pocitmst.htm
http://www.feng-shui.net.au/pages/main.html
http://www.feng-shui.net.au/pages/luopan1.html

I find it interesting that markings vaguely similar to the Yijing trigrams
appear (possibly as coded information) in the VMS (e.g., reference inner
circle of the Pisces diagram). I wonder if one design prompted the other?

Trigrams:
http://www.aafengshui.com/inform.html#is

Five Elements:
http://www.fengshui-master.com/principl.htm

Regards,
Dana Scott

Jorge Stolfi wrote:

>     > Here is a somewhat interesting exhibition from Cornell with various
>     > samples of ancient texts.
>     >
>     > http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Paper-exhibit/default.html
>
> I found this one interesting:
>
> http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Paper-exhibit/images/E3856_0055.jpg
>
> Perhaps some of the VMS diagrams are remains of such wheels, or
> attempts to reproduce them? (I believe they had been in use for a long
> time --- at least since the time of Ramón Llull.)
>
> All the best,
>
> --stolfi
>
> PS: I also found it amusing that the only broken link in that
> exhibit is in the censorship section. A pedagogical example
> of censorship in action? 8-)
>
> http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Paper-exhibit/paper10.html
> http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Paper-exhibit/strike.html