Re: VMs: Re: What do you think about Eight?

[Pamela Richards <spirlhelix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Nick

Speaking of spirals, starfish, and sunflowers. . .all
may express forms of a Fibonacci spiral.  As does the
growth of a human fetus.

A plant viewed from above, at the stage of eight
leaves, resembles the eight-divided circle graphs of
the VMs, thanks to the plant's use of Fibonacci
spirals.

Perhaps entirely a coincidence, or a proof of the
ubiquity of Fibonacci's sequence.

Warmly,

Pam


--- Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Rene,
> 
> At 04:53 26/08/2004 -0700, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> >since the VMs includes bits and pieces from several
> >scientific disciplines, it might well be that the
> >diagram is not astronomical or astrological at all,
> >but rather meteorological. It would make perfect
> >sense to have an eight-fold division for the
> >eight major directions from which the winds might
> >come. The figure is of course rather unusual in
> >that sense, but so is the whole MS :-)
> 
> So the "starfish" page would be converting between
> zodiac signs (or lunar 
> months) and wind-rose directions? Hmmm... doesn't
> really work for me, 
> sorry. :-/
> 
> >I don't know anything about treguenda, or how
> >old that tradition is, but there is one aspect
> >I like about that explanation: the VMs figure shows
> >four larger sprials and four smaller ones,
> >alternating. Also the writing direction
> >alternates.
> 
> It doesn't seem to alternate on f68v3 (the "spiral
> galaxy" page), which 
> definitely has four long arms interspersed with four
> short arms: but 
> perhaps we're talking about different pages?
> 
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 
> 
> 
>
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