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Re: VMs: On the VMs zodiac



Hello Rene, Nick and All,

I took a look at the binding of the zodiac pages, and, indeed, it seems that my proposal that Aries would be Capricorn and Taurus=Aries is impossible because of the structure of the folios.
However, I now believe that the division of Aries and Taurus, plus several other features, might have something to do with the ancient division of a year into 4, 8 and 16 parts.
I wrote my notes on a web page for those who are interested:


http://www.astro.helsinki.fi/~marianna/notes3.txt

Best regards,
Marianna


----- Original Message ----- From: "Rene Zandbergen" <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 1:34 AM
Subject: RE: VMs: On the VMs zodiac



Hello Nick,

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

As Dana suggested a while back, there may well be
many more hidden
symmetries within the zodiac section: regardless of
how wide individual
bifolios are, there are still many distinct ways of
folding and binding
them (as we saw in Quire 9). More particularly,
who's to say that (what we
now know as) quires 10 and 11 weren't originally
bound together?

What we see now makes sense in terms of the order of the illustrations. Alternative bindings imply that the page numbering is wrong, the quiration is wrong and the order of the zodiac is messed up. Saying that there might be an alternative is not really helping us. A specific alternative could be assessed, to see how it 'improves' things (e.g. by putting Aries at the start after all). After all, there are only so many distinct ways of folding and binding the quires.

Cheers, Rene



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