Re: VMs: Re: van Gogh (was Pleiades)

["jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Greg,

exactly my point. NASA already mentined there may be something more than what just meats the eye  -
and we should get to the bottom of it.  After all, nobody spends so many hours drawing those pictures WITHOUT any purpose.  Besides, the artist usually draws a picture - what we have in the star  section of the VM, are obviously  diagrams, that is something else again.

Jan

  
  
=======  You wrote:  
>
>Jan and Dennis having brought up van Gogh, I was reminded of the following
>- it turns out that, despite whatever medical issues there might have
>been, van Gogh was interested in astronomy and quite capable of depictions 
>of the night sky accurate enough to be recognizable and even datable. For 
>example:
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1209614.stm
>
>and
>
>http://www.vangoghgallery.com/forum/forum_18a.htm
>http://www.vangoghgallery.com/forum/forum_18.htm
>
>I guess the moral of the story is that, in this day and age of digital
>imaging and electronic measurement, it is sometimes far too easy to
>dismiss both the ability of individuals to observe the night sky (and
>indeed the world around them) and to represent those observations on
>simple sketches; a drawing need not be millimetre-precise with gridlines
>and such to depict the salient points of an observation. As far as the VMS
>is concerned, it may indeed be that the star maps _are_ just visions,
>migrane-induced or otherwise, but the fact that they appear _simple_
>should not be used as an argument against them.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Greg
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