<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Dear colleagues,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-size: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Is there anybody out there who would happen to know more about one part of the "Templum musicae" diagram in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris ... historia"? I mean the large checkerboard structure in the lower left quarter below the person pointing at some musical score (there is a digital version of the whole diagram online at <a href="http://www.soundpossibilities.org/html/temple_of_music.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #000099">http://www.soundpossibilities.org/html/temple_of_music.html</span></a>). Fludd's book dates from 1617--has anybody perhaps encountered an earlier diagram showing these black and white boxes? (I do not refer to the contents of this part on intervals, but only to Fludd's way of graphic presentation.) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated; I guess private replies to <a href="mailto:christoph.hust@gmx.de"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #000099">christoph.hust@gmx.de</span></a> would be best.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-size: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Best wishes,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Christoph Hust</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" style="font-size: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">--</span></font></span></font></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>PD Dr. Christoph Hust</div><div>Musikwissenschaftliches Institut</div><div>Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz</div><div>D-55128 Mainz, <a href="http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de">www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de</a></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>