Re: VMs: VMS Revisited

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

The same author also points to a similarity between the leaves on VMS f8r 
and an illustration from Dryander:-

        Another tradition, possibly Persian in origin, was to associate signs
        of the zodiac with parts of the anatomy.  This was a commonplace
        by the 15th century but a combination of this astrological system
        with that governing the planting, ripening, picking and application
        of medicinal plants would have been a novelty even in the time of
        the VMS.  It is not a coincidence that many of the anatomical
        drawings of the period show dissected organs which, if the
        Doctrine of Signatures still applies, looked similar to plants
        depicted in the VMS.  Compare f8r with the posterior view of the
        lung above the diaphragm from Dryander's Anatomiae corporis
        humani dissectionis ( 1537 ).

While I haven't found a copy of this image on the web, Dryander's work is 
also cited in this interesting paper on "Donne, Vesalius, and the Anatomy 
of Body and Soul" by Richard Sugg (University of Southampton) in the 
peer-reviewed online journal "Signatures" (it appears as "chapter 3" - note 
that this starts on page 40 of 143):-
        http://www.ucc.ac.uk/signatures/assets/pdf/Signatures_Vol1.pdf

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


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