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Re: VMs: Copernican manuscript?
Jeff,
If this is a helio-centric representation then it dates the VMS to post-1541, copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, making the author a contemporary of Rudolph II. Perhaps a comparison of the zodiac labels on 67r with those on the zodiacal pages?
good luck.
Lee.
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Subject: VMs: Copernican manuscript?
Have a look at f67r right hand diagram.
http://130.132.81.124/VOYNICHIMG/size4/D0018/1006194.jpg
And this diagram:
http://astro.wsu.edu/worthey/astro/html/im-sky/heliocentric-solar-motion.jpg
and tell me if this is not a Copernican representation.
It could even represent the orbit of mars. After all the planet-like body it is coloured red. The shape at the centre looks like the sun to me.
Jeff
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