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I went through the Voy pages and found: "Jakub Horcicky was born in or
near Krumlov, S. Bohemia, in 1575"
do we have a more detailed date?
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx 02/10/03 04:39AM >>> Dear all, > I figure that all of the months for which we have > sheets contain 30 days. Yes, but note that they should not be days but degrees. > Since Pisces has 29 showing, and the text in > the center matches the format of the other days, > it is most likely the missing day. Absolutely correct. Whether it was a mistake or part of a plan is hard to say. I tend to think the latter, but there is one missing label in the other zodiac pages, and there is also one page where the nymph has no star. These two, I think, are mistakes. > I also note that there is a pattern to the pages (snipped) Well spotted. > Seems to me Pisces was supposed to have 20 2nd > circle women but due to a mistake - or for some > intentional reason - the final day was put into > the center. Horoscopes tended to look at the degree of the zodiac that ascended at the time of a person's birth, or the degree in which the sun was located (the latter is what you find in modern magazines and newspapers, because it does not require knowledge of the time of birth, only the date). > If this truly is a horoscope, perhaps > that one day is the birthdate of the person. In that is the case, the VMs was written by George of Trebizond after all :-) He lived in the 15th C., in N.Italy, was familiar with all Greek philosophical (i.e. scientific) works, worked in diplomatic circles, and was quite mad in his older days, both by modern and contemporary standards :-). He used to lament the fact that he was born under the sign of Pisces. Cheers, Rene __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |