Re: VMs: Rotae, VMS-glyphs, Opicinus and Friedman - on line now

["Barbara Barrett" <barbarabarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Petr Piped;
> >I have put up a *temporary mirror* of an article on Rotae and Circular
> >diagrams here (1,8Mb).
> >I think this is a "must read" document. If you're interested I'll try to
get
> >*all* the pages of this chapter. Now I've only copied the pages with the
> >pictures.
> >http://www.xs4all.nl/~kazil/Rotae_And_Circular_Diagrams.pdf

Barbara Burbles;
Wow, much ta Petr. Yes I'd be very interested in the full text. May I
recommend to you the site;

http://www.henerydavis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/EML.html

for medieval world maps, including T-O, Y-O, zonal, a wind rota, and the
Hereford map in detail.

And the book;
Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed their World.
by Prof Evelyn Edson,
The British Library Studies in Map History Volume One
ISBN 0-7123-4535-3

Which is very good at getting into the medieval mindset which chose the
schematic over the representational view. Many circular maps are illustrated
as well as humors of the body, wind rotae, blood circulation, and other
stuff. The book's text mentions medieval circular zodiac, star, and, moon
rotae but I've not had the time myself to track these down myself yet.

I've found a site that sells reprints of "ancient and medieval" astrology
books, and another with a doctoral thesis which says that illustrations in
Alchemical works only began in the renaissance - but a crash of my bookmarks
file means I'll have to go hunting to find them again :-(.

Barbara




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