Jon_B Wrote:
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> very symptomatic of a sad inability to see this for what it is which is a
> delightful piece of abstract pattern making.
Jon:
If you call this a piece of "abstract" work then you have problems.
> I used to do this sort of thing when I was a child
> without an angle or a measurement in sight.
You couldn't have...it's too complicated for you.
> And certainly no idea of tangents which is the same as
> the artist who made this of course.
Jon: You are advertising your lack of mathematical knowledge again. A rise to run measure that the AE used is what we call a tangent ratio of a right angle.
> Comments like the above are so irrelevant and the
> analysis misses so much and does the Ancient
> Egyptians such a diservice.
Relevance is in the eyes of the beholder...nothing to do with disservice.
> All you need is a basic atheistic sense and some imagination. Not a
> computer and a set of very modern calculations.
You don't need a computer to calculate these values and they are not modern...been used for thousands of years. Problem is...they are new to you.
That's the major downfall of modern Egyptologists (excluding you of course...'cause you are not one of them)...they assume the AE were not advanced in all aspects of life, nature and the sciences.
Art at its finest is designed/based on mathematics...that is factual.
Think Jon...study these pieces of art for a change...don't just photograph them for pasting onto the web. Analyze every aspect of what you are viewing.
Artists "create" they don't sit down and "slap" a piece of work together without some thought behind the project...it requires months of preparation at times, as this piece did.
Back to the disk.
You don't know how grateful I am for you bringing this item to my attention. The "story" behind it is incredible...unfortunately...it's too complicated for those lacking astronomy skills. It's this kind of evidence that I've been searching for since I first became involved with pyramid studies twenty years ago. Had I seen it then I would have thought exactly as you did...just another another fine piece of art work by master artists.
BTW...I studied art for four years...how about you?
Best.
Clive