06-02-2017, 11:48 AM
(06-02-2017, 09:33 AM)stellar wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.@ JKP
Quote:The 7 stars might represent the solar system or any of the other constellations that are symbolized by the number 7 (there are quite a few of them) and the similarity to Taurus (linguistically or numerically) might be coincidental.JKP,
... If he wished to place a small solar system on the left of this folio he would have most certainly done the whole folio differently as in ellipses of bodies around the Sun. Other constellations? Which one in the night sky has so many bright stars neatly cluster and packed together? ...
I disagree that he would necessarily have represented the "seven stars" (planets) in a conventional way. Very little about the manuscript is conventional and instantly recognizable.
Also, I did not say there were many constellations with seven stars, I was talking about how they were represented in the middle ages, which was often with geomancy patterns, with seven being a common pattern for several of the constellations.
It may turn out to be Pleiades, but I think it's unwise to assume it's Pleiades and to build other assumptions on top of that one.