VMs: Re: Locating the nine-rosette map...

[Dana Scott <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm. 3 x 8 = 24 might be a consideration?

Regards,
Dana Scott

John Grove wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Pelling" <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Voynich Ms. mailing list" <voynich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 1:13 PM
> Subject: VMs: Locating the nine-rosette map...
> >
> > The castle rosette would then be East (as Imola is not far from the east
> > coast), the faint Filaretian tower approaching the Northern rosette could
> > be Milan (with the road going off from there into the top of the page
> could
> > indicate Venice), the Southern rosette would be Rome (or perhaps Sicily?),
> > and the Western rosette (with the so-called "clock") would be Tuscany.
>
>     Wouldn't the location of the two SUN images be more likely to indicate
> East-West?
> Which would put the castle to the North. and the 'clock' to the south... I
> wonder if the hands
> in the 'clock' have anything to do with the moons on f67... There are eight
> sets of three lines around that
> 'clock' where the numbers would be. Who measures time by eights?
>
> John.