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Re: VMs: A Comment on f67r2 - degrees?



Hello Philip,
 
Would it be possible to make the more complete folio available via the Internet? Thank you for your assistance.
 
Regards,
Dana Scott
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Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: VMs: A Comment on f67r2 - degrees?


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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