This image is from today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (technically, tomorrow's entry -- Jan. 31 -- but since I'm writing this on Saturday, I'm counting it as Saturday). Why is it so familiar? It is from a book, the Voynich Manuscript, in the Yale Rare Book Collection. Presumably written in the 15th Century, in no known language, it shows some areas of the sky with constellations that no modern astronomer recognizes. This image is of our sun, apparently.More importantly, why do I recognize this? But it is so familiar to me, with a texture almost of cloth, as if I've seen it embroidered somewhere. Anybody else recognize it?
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I also recognize it, and, alas, I have the same source amnesia. I'm guessing something Lymond related?
Or I may have used it on FrenchKate, but when? & in what context?
I wish it were as easy to do image searches as searches for words.
I don't recognize it, so maybe not Lymond related. Perhaps something at the Mpls Museum of Art?
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