Re: VMs: Kepler & the VMS

["Robert Teague" <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Interpreted drawing -> find a date for the alleged astonomical event -> find a 
> character pattern that fits the date.

Except I didn't do that:

Assume number correspondences are correct -> find a word that seems to
be a date on the folio -> find an astronomical event that matches the drawing
*in that year*.

Admittedly, it's not proof. But the fact that a logical and consistant pattern
begins to emerge across several folios strengthens the hypothesis.

> For a recognition of this kind, one needs an extra proof of the *functioning* 
> of the numbers. This is the way the page numbering in the Codex Serphinianus 
> (I can never remember it is with a "f" or a "ph", sorry) was cracked (they 
> were in a sequence).

I'm going to have to check out that Codex. Sounds intriguing.

Your suggestion of finding a function for the numbers is a good one. I'll have
to work on that.

> So one should be looking, for example, for a table with names and geographical 
> coordinates, or operations (like an sum) of some kind, or a particular 
> sequence, or a geometrical diagram showing relations between measurements.
> Unfortunately there seems to be very little resembling any of those (perhaps 
> some of the key-like sequences could be sorted numbers or letters.)

Well, the first four letters of the second ring on f57v could be read "1582".

Robert

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