Re: VMs: Finding

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rene,

> In the mean time, what do you mean with the '5 main
> parts'?

If the 9 rosettes are numbered
        #1  #2  #3
        #4  #5  #6
        #7  #8  #9
(with the infamous castle rosette at #3), then #2 and #8 are very similar, 
both appearing to look like abstract "windmills", or "steam turbines" (stop 
me if you've heard it before), only #2 has thirteen "rotors", and #8 has 
seven "rotors". #4 also seems to contain a smaller copy of #8 inside it. I 
can't be sure about #6 (even the photo in Kraus is unclear), but to my eyes 
it seems abstract (rather than referential) in a similar way to #2, #4, and #8.

That leaves the five rosettes I'm specifically talking about - the four 
corners and the centre.

Incidentally, there appears to be some very faint non-Voynichese writing on 
the inside of the outer ring of #8, in the top-right quadrant (you can just 
make them out on Rene's colour image) - I don't recall anyone remarking on 
this before?

> There is one scan of the page already, which is not
> great, but the only colour one available at the
> moment. Does anything you're referring to show
> up on that one?
> http://www.voynich.nu/img/clips/rosettes.gif

Looking at the colour image again, I'm interested to note that only three 
of the seven "gaps" between rotors in the #8 rosette are coloured yellow, 
and likewise for only some of the tips of (what I suspect are) the minarets 
in the centre rosette (#5)... yet in the #4 rosette, the rotors are yellow, 
not the gaps... very curious. :-o

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


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