Re: VMs: f52r illustration

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Run with it Lee you never know where it might lead. :-)

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Pelling" <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 11 July 2004 00:23
Subject: Re: VMs: f52r illustration


> Hi Lee Yang Yang,
>
> At 09:39 09/07/2004 +0800, Lee Yang Yang wrote:
> >I'm a medical student from Singapore with a long-standing interest in the
> >VMs. Recently I realized that the root system of the plant featured in
> >f52r resembles an anatomical construct - the arterial circle of Willis. I
> >have uploaded a detail of the roots and the Willis here:
> >
> >http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v16/numquaz/willis52.jpg
> >http://www.synpulse.com/science/katpres/images/willis.jpg
> >http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/cardio/willis.jpg
> >
> >Searching the list archives back till 2002, I found that this is one of
> >the few VMs herbs to resist identification by Dana Scott :) The geometry
> >of f52r is highly similar to this arterial system - a loop with four
> >branches on the inferior surface that resemble human "limbs". This might
> >be a significant clue to the subject matter of f52r.
>
> Thanks for this, very interesting! AIUI, there is a lot of debate about
the
> accuracy of early anatomical diagrams - for example, one book I read on
> Leonardo contended that some of his famous anatomical drawings were done
> partly from human cadavers, but also partly from dead cows (if we are not
> distracted by the high subjective quality of his rendering style, but
> instead concentrate on the anatomical details).
>
> f52r is one of those unsettling VMs pages - its contents seem clearly
> non-herbal, yet are not obviously symbolic or metaphoric either. The
> quality of your suggested match with the arterial circle of Willis seems
> novel, but perhaps (looking at the details) less persuasive than some of
> Dana's better matches. :-)
>
> FWIW, I think that f52r will turn out to be yet more "crypto-heraldry"...
> with luck. we shall see! :-o
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
>
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