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Re: edges of knowledge

Hi Claus,

today I got the idea (maybe I'm not the 1st one to this), to draw a flow
chart for the transitions of the VMS. I.e. I start from real and/or known
objects called sources (books like herbals, astro-logical/-nomical books or
samples like dried or living plans), thoughts or ideas. From these sources
there was a compililation which resulted in the original VMS text.This
compilation was translated into a unknown language (Voynichese) using a
dictionary or sort of. The result of the translating was then encoded using
unknown keys and unknown algorithm. The transcoded text was transcripted
mixed with  drawings from above sources. This mixing resulted in (as I
believe) a pre VMS, which was later copied giving our VMS.
I think this project was not done but one person alone. I think that the
transcription process was quite arbitraly so maybe the differnet "languages"
as observed by Currier were created.

You're basically talking about a diagram representing the flow of prior knowledge (astrological, pharmacological, biological, etc) into the VMS?

Similarly, you could construct a diagram representing the flow of stylistic influences on the VMS' pictorial details - eg, hair, hats, crossbow, castle.

Also: a diagram drawing out a loose family tree of astrological representations (kind of a top-down view of "Project Hindsight") would be very interesting.

So I like to draw this flow chart which can easily show the "edges of
knowledge", but I have at times noe webspace to present this diagram. I you
like, I can send you my drawing (in any format you like (gif/jpeg...).

Please do send me your drawing (off-list), I'll be very interested to see it. I have plenty of webspace. :-/

I really do think that we (as a group) should find ways of making the vast cloud of knowledge we've accumulated about the VMS more accessible. All suggestions welcome!

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....