Re: VMs: VMS Revisited

[steve ekwall <ekwall2@xxxxxxxx>]

 From: Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 I don't recall anyone's using the word "gravida" (for "nymph") on list 
<snip)...


 From: vocal list-member. :-)
 
          Anatomical illustrations dating from as early as the first
          millenium of babies in the womb became a convention,
          called gravida figures.  They were more than babies really,
          because the conventional way of depicting them was as
          miniature adults who pose.  By the 15th century many of
          these gravida figures, which appropriately lived in the
          uterus, gained stylisations which had nothing to do with anatomy.
 
 There's plenty more interesting stuff to be read there... :-)
 
 The (unnamed) author (who appears to be English, and to use Microsoft 
 FrontPage) writes:-
          The pipes and valves of the plumbing in folios 75 to 84 are
          unusually modern-looking if they are to be interpreted as a
          man-made fluid transport system.  A reading of Vitruvius on
          plumbing suggests that the joining, branching, tapering,
          curving of the VMS designs could not be realised with the
          technology of the time, but the Murano glassworks of the
          Republic of Venice ( founded in 1291 ) could turn tubing
          thus, albeit on a smaller scale.  So, if the plumbing of the
          VMS is glass, then the text is indeed probably alchemical
          and the gravidae or nymphs are correspondingly allegorical.
 
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FWIW - PIPES for PLUMBING (Roman Sewage 101): debark and clean the
straightest branch of tree (or trunk) you can find (to fit). Cover
with 1-3" (wetted) CLAY and Burn in a (HOT COAL) FIRE PIT all night.

Often the names of the requesting "owners of each pipe" was inscribed
on the outside of the clay pipe(s)....

(e.g. "PIPE #8 for DR. SMITH's House" ..etc.)

Short of a chimney in a BLAST FURNACE... this _pipe_ would last
forever? .. (Blast Furnace?): use a recipe of 1 part (dry) clay / 2
parts (dry) silica (sand), MIX ALL DRY, then Wetted, HEAT as above..
and you have "FOUNDRY" pipes (for crucibles, molds & melting/casting
of METAL(s) etc..) recipe is as OLD(er) as Egypt.

The vms 'plumbing' (I say) is "simply FEMALE!" 

Todate "FEMALE PLUMBING" still looks _futuristic_ to most eyes. (CAT
scans & Microtomomy included) :SEE: vms eggs/seeds in *Burst'ed/'ing*
flower (life SEED) clusters mode etc..

Don't SEE the answer, if you don't SEE the problem !

"gravida" PIPES = a #1 ~Clue~ here.


Best to you & yours
-=se=-
steve (FOLD IT / FLIP IT) ekwall


back under my ~rock~ 
K*I*S*S

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