>In a message dated 6/28/01 9:53:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>selvarv@... writes:
>

Birgit wrote:

>It is going to be 60 cm long (15"). I have already completed the outlines on
>the grid. I am now working on the colors for each "box".
>
>It would be good to have it online. Does anyone have any ideas why Yggdrasil
>was shown like a palmtree in 1680?

I have seen a similar illustration - the paradisical
tree as palm tree - in a book by Robert Fludd that
was printed around 1620 or 1630. It could have been
in his "Philosophia Moysaica" that was printed in 1638.
I will see if I can find it.

Best regards
Keth