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RE: So.. What should I actually be doing? - RadioFM - 06-02-2025
I too am new to the VMS, with a stronger interest in the text itself. I don't know your professional background, and it's clear you've been lurking the forum a bit, but anyway, here's what I'd suggest everyone wanting to tackle the text should do IMHO:
- Don't expect to solve the VMs in the near future, even if at times you feel you're onto something
- Learn about paleography; the different handwriting scripts/styles around the time of the radiocarbon dating for languages such as Latin, Romance and Germanic languages, Greek, maybe English. I'm not sure about other language families.
- Get an overview of medieval herbals; have a look at some of them mentioned here in this forum.
- Learn about some statistical laws of texts and ciphers, learn about the concepts of Entropy and Conditional Entropy (Information Theory, not Thermodynamics)
- Read most (if not all) threads in the Analysis of the text forum and Marginalia, even the old ones
- Read the work of other researchers *
- Keep up with the latest research in other areas (e.g. illustrations, provenance, etc) - even if it's not what interests you the most
- Attack the text (try to find patterns or lackthereof, put hypothesis to the test)
Of course, it's not something anyone could do in a couple of weeks. You never stop learning new stuff and researching when dealing with the VMs.
* Off the top of my head, here a short sample of my personal (biased) pantheon of Voynich sages, hallowed be their names alia+ma+ria :
René, D'Imperio, Currier, FSG, JKP, Koen, EMS, MarcoP, Stolfi, Pfeaster, Pelling
There are plenty other people submitting some interesting ideas, shower thoughts and discoveries. Although tremendously helpful, don't limit yourself to whatever's posted on this forum, a lot of people keep their own personal blogs and websites up to date with their latest work.
RE: So.. What should I actually be doing? - oshfdk - 06-02-2025
RE: So.. What should I actually be doing? - R. Sale - 06-02-2025
RE: So.. What should I actually be doing? - Rafal - 06-02-2025
RE: So.. What should I actually be doing? - RadioFM - 06-02-2025
RE: So.. What should I actually be doing? - Bluetoes101 - 07-02-2025
RE: So.. What should I actually be doing? - Rafal - 07-02-2025
RE: So.. What should I actually be doing? - ReneZ - 08-02-2025
RE: So.. What should I actually be doing? - bt2901 - 08-02-2025