Re: Cost of the VMS...?

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Hmm..  I've been trying to check out information about the bohemians
myself..  If Dee and Kelley are suspected authors just because they were
into astrology and 'magic", what about some of the other atronomers who
were around at the time?  I kind of suspect maybe Kepler (Or Brahe) but
there were lots of people there at the time.  I also like Dana's idea about
trying to figure out some of the pictures to maybe get a basis to start
figuring this out.  I'm sure you guys have already discussed the
possibility that the big star picture could be the supernova that was seen
in the early 1600's (it's still early for me.. could've been the early
1400's..  I can't remember right now).. Anyway, does anyone have a list of
the different illustrations and their possible identities?



The following may be of interest:


http://www.georgetown.edu/grad/CCT/505/mstech.html
http://www.huscarl.com/a&s/text/scribes.htm
http://www.utah.edu/umfa/mmgenintro.html
http://www.swaen.com/medieval.html
http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/MMM/home.html


What cost is a work of art?
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dre008.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dre070.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dre074.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dre073.jpg


Tycho Brahe:
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/People/tycho_brahe.html


Regards,
Dana Scott


Nick Pelling wrote:
     Hi everyone,


     Corresponding off-list with Claus, I came up with yet more plausible
     questions. :-/


     Has anyone tried to calculate how much the VMS would have cost to
     produce?
     I'm thinking along the lines of the recent TV documentary where a
     group of
     engineers worked out (using modern project management tools) how long
     it
     would have taken to build a pyramid in Ancient Egyptian times. It's
     way too
     easy to unconsciously project our economic models onto those times. :
     -/


     Also: how easy would it have been to get hold of all the things you'd
     have
     needed to make the VMS? Here, I'm reminded of the passage quoted on
     Rafal's
     page where Arthur Dee's tutor, "under pretence of going to Budweiss to
     buy
     cullors", runs away. Me, I'd rather go there for the beer. :-)


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