Re: VMs: A Comment on f67r2 - degrees?

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Roux wrote:

> I have been looking at this page and am convinced that the outer ring is a 
> set of degrees.

This looks plausible and is very interesting if true. I have often thought 
that some of these star circle diagrams look like the designs on an 
astrolable.
> I will try to show this with limited graphic capabilities without including 
> bitmaps of the numbers:
>
> The start is the top, center with
> |- -| |- -| = 00
> next is
> |- -| |oooo| |- -| = 030
> then
> |- -||oooooooo| |- -| = 090
>
> this goes around till the last circle
> |- -| |oooo| |oooooooo| |- -| = 0360


> If anyone can confirm this with a better copy of the page I would 
> appreciate it.

There are two different images of this page out there: one of the Beinecke 
colour images which
unfortunately cuts off part of the rim, and the corresponding no-ip image 
which is rougher but shows the whole page. Between them you can see most of 
the markings. I tried to combine the two into a single transcription this 
morning but it is a tremendously fiddly task.

Philip Neal

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