Posted on 09/07/2017 7:41:06 PM PDT by sparklite2
The 600-year-old document is described as 'the world's most mysterious medieval text.'
It is full of illustrations of exotic plants, stars, and mysterious human figures, as well as many pages written in an unknown text.
Now, one British academic claims the document is in fact a health manual for a 'well-to-do' lady looking to treat gynaecological conditions.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Interesting.
I did buy an exact copy of the book, so interesting to peruse.
But, I bet this theory gets shot down. But it’s an interesting one and seems plausible to me.
If anyone wants to know what it says, private mail me.
Don’t Forget to Drink Your Ovaltine!
lol. That kid got ####ed. lol
Not buying it.
Some of the best cryptologists in the world have had a go at the Voynich. They would have thought of this.
Ping.
It is a long-winded old version of the modern “please don’t pee in our pool, we don’t swim in your toilet”
But there may still be some idiosyncratic code, meaningful to the troll, to be discovered.
Seems like a lot of work, to be just weird pictures. (And some of the plants don’t seem to be identifiable.)
Maybe the code isn’t in the text (?)
Crackpot news from Daily Mail. What a miserable website that is to navigate *ugh*.
The article says he is unable to translate much of it, but doesn’t say anything about the parts he did “translate”, which I suspect amounts to exactly nothing, otherwise this would be bigger news.
This was a compelling examination of the VM by a botanist.
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Research suggests that Mexico, rather than Europe, may be key to famously indecipherable botanical document
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/07/new-clue-voynich-manuscript-mystery
He made a puerile assumption from looking at the pictures, and hung a story on that.
Maybe it’s the lyrics to that famous hot tub song.
Was the title “What happened”?
I understand that no botanist has ever been able to identify any of the plants drawn in the Voynich Manuscript. If this were a book of recipes for aromatherapies using herbal potions, as the good medicinal historian claims, don’t you think those instructions would show one illustrations of the real herbs one would be using to make the recipe, and not some fanciful plant the would be potion maker would never be able to find? Or, is it that, as the good historian would have us believe, there’s a missing decoder index that shows the would be mixologist, once he finds a matching fanciful image in the purported missing “index,” that there’s another image of what the real plant that actually he needs to go looking for really looks like to use in his aromatherapy formula? Seems a little “around the barn” in the manuscript author’s methodology, to me.
I refer the reader to William of Occam and his very useful Razor. ‘Tis much too complicated to be the likely explanation.
I think the Gordon Rugg quote in that article makes sense; but you do get a kind of ‘Lewis and Clark journal’ feeling from some parts of the MS; of an explorer making notes of new species that he encounters.
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