Re: VMs: Copernican manuscript?

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my opinion it is very contemporary with Rudolph. There are snippets that
have been overlooked because they are not easy to spot. Throwaway lines here
and there that bring everything together.

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Yang Yang" <u0306518@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: 12 July 2004 04:32
Subject: 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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>
> 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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