VMs: Re: Bacon, rainbows and f82v

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

Bacon's reference to Artephiushas in his "Epistle on the Nullity of Magic" 
can found in

"Deciphering The Most Mysterious
Manuscript In The World"
by Aldrich Daimler

http://www.borderlands.com/archives/arch/decipher.htm

Regards,
Dana Scott

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Subject: VMs: Bacon, rainbows and f82v


> Larry wrote:
>
> >I am not sure what the mystery is regarding the circular drawings 
> >(nymphs)
> and text.
>
> Bacon's Opus Majus itself includes a neat set of circles:
>
> http://wise.fau.edu/divdept/physics/jordanrg/LLS/lecture11/VG3.gif
>
> Also, Roger Bacon made several comments about rainbows when he wrote about
> experimental science - is that also what f82v (bottom) was about, as it 
> has
> been perceived in the past?
>
> We know that there are at least a couple of very good reasons why Bacon
> could not have been the author (Vellum/parchment preparation, florentine
> hat, etc), and yet, there are also a similar number (at least) of reasons
> why he may well have been it (after all, he wrote: "... certain persons
> have achieved concealment by means of letters not then used by their own
> race or others but arbitrarily invented by themselves; this is the 
> greatest
> obstacle of all, and Artephiushas employed it in his book On the Secrets 
> of
> Nature.".
>
> Has this matter been sufficiently settled in our archive  (not an easy one
> to find)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Luis
>
>
>
>
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