VMs: Re: Epithelial cells & cilia

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gabriel,

> > Does anyone know who would be the real author of this claim? Anyone who
> > would agree with this interpretation about epithelial cells, presumably
> > those on f86v?
>
> If this claim is correct, it would means that the author of the vms was not
> only able to make a powerful mircoscope, but also able to produce thin
> histological sections, plus some sort of staining (assuming that the dots in
> the roundy things are cell nuclei.
>
> I would say that this is *extremely* unlikely to have been achieved in the
> 1400's.

Newbold's decipherment was based on the claim that Roger Bacon used a 
microscope both for laying down the tiny strokes that formed the core of 
the code, and for viewing epithelial cells, etc.

So... rewind 200 years to the 1200's! :-)

For sure, Bacon was a very smart bloke (Doctor Mirabilis!)... but no, I 
don't believe it either. :-)

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