Nymphs and 3-space...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Sorry if this is an old observation, but it struck me a couple of days ago 
that the astrological nymphs' poses seem to indicate three orthogonal 
*spatial dimensions*:-

	facing direction			left - right
	hand relative to hip		behind - in front
	other hand relative to star	up - down

Try as I might, I haven't been able to shake this thought: if correct, 
there's something unsettlingly modern about this... the basic 
*Cartesian-ness* of it all.

Of course, there's always the possibility that these are simply binary 
flags, and this is essentially a picture of a binary code... but this too 
was only really used by Bacon (Francis, not Roger), IIRC. Were there binary 
codes before Bacon? I can't recall seeing any, this could be the earliest.

There's something wrong here, and I can't put my finger on it... :-|

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