Re: VMs: George of Trebizond...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rene,

At 08:59 13/02/03 -0800, you wrote:
> Now since George was very much a specialist,
> he may well have been aware of errors in the
> Alfonsine tables, or used his own methods, in
> which case we really don't know much...

...all of which is why I'd rather examine Monfasani's books directly 
(especially David Pingree's contribution), to see what the primary evidence 
is, before jumping to *too* many conclusions.

> > Note: his opinion of this whole possibility? "Quite
> > extraordinary". :-)
>
> Just to get it right: is that his response to
> the possiblity that the VMs might be from George T.?
> If you mentioned the VMs to him, did you get the
> impression that he had heard about it?

I told him that a co-researcher of mine [ie you] had suggested that 
Trebizond might have been the original author of an as-yet-undecoded 
cryptogram (though without specifically naming the VMS), and that the 
details of his natal horoscope might somehow help unlock its secrets.

I still believe this to be true - but I suspect Trebizond's connection is 
far more likely to be purely with the zodiac and cosmology sections, with 
at least two further parties implicated (one who originated the herbal and 
balneological sections, and one who encoded his bookshelf).

Furthermore, there may be, buried deep in Trebizond's writings, some 
cosmological or planetary-oriented text that might be related to the 
plaintext on the cosmo section.

In fact, I would not be surprised if Trebizond sold the original 
zodiac/cosmo manuscript to the encoder during the 1460's, somewhere on his 
slide down into poverty. But we shall see! :-)

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

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