Re: VMS -- Yellow Centaurea (f02r)

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dana,

Hmmm... first lion's tooth, and now centaurea... notice a pattern?

When I was thinking about indexing mechanisms not so long ago, I wondered 
if the botanical images were nothing to do with botany, but instead were 
some kind of *referential shorthand* to index that page.

So: a page with data related to a "Leo" code could have a lion's tooth 
plant on, a page with data related to a "Sagittarius" code could have 
centaurea on, and so forth: basically, *indexing by association*. Then, 
someone need only be familiar with astrological plant associations to make 
the connection.

Even though the folios may have been rebound in completely the wrong order, 
it should still be possible to see if there are other adjacent astrological 
associations on nearby pages: ie, Cancer - Leo - Virgo might still be in 
sequence, as could Scorpio - Sagittarius - Capricorn (and so on).

Of course, if "lion's tooth" and "centaurea" both post-date the VMS, this 
is probably just a blind alley. :-)

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