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



One minor observation about f67r2 is that the 4 green points around the 
central "starfish" do not belong to this folio. They are bleed 
through/across(?) from f67v2.


Regards,
Dana Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rene Zandbergen" <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 1:59 AM
Subject: VMs: Re: What do you think about Eight?


>
> --- Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Rene,
> >
> > At 12:24 26/08/2004 -0700, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> > >You got me. Which one is the starfish page?
> >
> > f67r2 - the one with the 8-armed (or do I mean
> > 8-legged?) starfish in the
> > middle. :-)
>
> I see. That's a pretty small thing to build a great
> theory on though. It is not clear that it has a
> meaning that extends to the twelve-fold division
> outside it.
> While to me it does look like a windrose (is that
> English?), that may be anachronistic.
> The words around it are also eight in number,
> but are not aligned with the eight divisions, and
> there is a clear start marker, so this looks more
> like a short sentence.
>
> Mind you, a figure combining a 12-fold division
> with the compass directions would not at all
> be impossible. It would refer to an observer
> at a certain date: Aries (e.g.) would be due south
> (culminating) and the other signs could be
> correlated to the other directions.
>
> Cheers, Rene
>
>
>
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