Hello Nick,
Thank you for the references. Here are a few more samples collected while
investigating Saggitarius. The first has a feel of the depictions as seen in the
VMs, though I haven't tracked down the source.
Season's Greetings,
Dana Scott
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Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 9:22
AM
Subject: Re: VMs: Libra
Hi Dana,
At 01:30 24/12/2003 -0700, Dana Scott
wrote:
>Great! Thanks. Very interesting. No doubt this will be hard to
pin down.
>
>Here are a few more examples:
<SNIP>
Another route to take might be to look at the (often
circular?) designs
used for Libra (and Sagittarius, etc) on astronomical
clocks from the 15th
Century (which is when they started spreading through
Europe).
A quick search found astronomical clocks in Prague (though I
think the
Orloj's calendar is modern), Rostock, Exeter Cathedral, etc (but
no good
site listing them all) - I'm also unsure whether Giovanni de
Dondi's
original astronomical clock in Padua (built between 1348 and 1362)
had any
kind of ornamental zodiacal calendar at all.
Cheers,
.....Nick Pelling.....
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