Re: Re: VMs: Pleiades Occultation Further Date Refinement

["jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello  Ken,
 

>Recording the "instantaneous" position of the planets was pretty much 
>what the entire science of astronomy consisted of until the 1600's.  
>Brahe made a very good life for himself doing exactly that.  Ptolemy's 
>'atlas' was one of the most important astronomical texts for centuries, 
>though it consisted primarily of simple lists of star positions.  Well, 
>you get the idea.  

No doubt about it - but those were the studies of planets as the MAIN purpose.
Nothing of that sort is indicated in the VM. Also, if it was meant that way, 
would it not be logical to distinguish somehow the planet in question from  the stars?

The same applies if you want to depict some particular date. 

Of course, the knowing the tag would do in both cases, but
since the cryptographers could not help, we just have to guess.
We really need badly the decoding of the tags there. By the way, could the  two-word tag near
 Pleiades actually  mean something like "seven sisters" (not enecessarily in  English :-)? 
 That would be a start .  .  .
 
Jan
 
 





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