VMs: In the London Science Museum

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently visited the Wellcome Collection on the upper floors of the London 
Science Museum. This is not the same as the new Wellcome Galleries: it has 
been there for years, but I had never seen it before. It is an extraordinary 
assortment of curiosities illustrating medical history, rather how one 
imagines Emperor Rudolph's museum. Two things particularly caught my eye.

One was a letter from Nicholas Culpepper explaining how he acquired John 
Dee's scrying glass from Arthur Dee. According to Arthur it was John Dee 
himself who used to read things in it (no mention of Kelley - but I imagine 
Arthur had reason to write him out of the story). The other was one of the 
planetary volvelles of Leonhart Thurneisser - a complicated astrological 
model with rotating moving parts made entirely of paper with pictures and 
symbols printed on it. It looks very like a children's pop-up book. 
Recommended to Voynichologists visiting London.

Philip Neal

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