Re: VMs: Hello to all...

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rene,

At 22:58 13/02/2005 -0800, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> Just a minor nitpick: one doesn't need to fly over a
> particular landmark in order to be able to draw
> what it would look like from above.
> Maps were already very accurate before the first
> satellite pictures were available.

Bear in mind that the earliest map of this type still in existence was the 
map of Imola made by Leonardo da Vinci (now in the Royal Collection at 
Windsor) circa 1501 for Cesare Borgia - though art historians now suspect 
that (like so many of Leonardo's ideas) this was based on an earlier (but 
now lost?) map, possibly from 1473.
        http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/l/leonardo/13maps/1imola.html

Also remember that what we see in the central rosette is another type of 
view entirely. :-)

> I wonder if anyone is aware of the existence of
> a mosque or similar building with nine circular
> areas as on the rosettes page, where each
> room/area is dedicated to a particular science.

The closest parallel I can think of is the interior of a late medieval 
Islamic hospital complex I visited, where they used music as part of the 
healing: one door had the word "PARANOIA" on its (all the other doors were 
talking about it). :-o

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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