16-03-2019, 05:00 PM
I had not seen so far this thread opened by Koen time ago and it seems to me very illuminating. The letter from Baresch to Kircher is really a very important document. It shows that Baresch and people around him thougth there was some connection between the VMS and Egypt, that the weird script could be of the same nature of hieroglyphics, an pictographic script. Therefore the riddle only could be solve by the most famous egyptologist of his time. This is a fact, not speculation.
In his letter, Baresch talks about alchemical symbolism, something more typical of the XVII century than the XV. But we have to have one thing in mind: many of the alchemical symbols come from astrological symbols and this was what Baresch saw in the Voynich, no only in the images but also in the script.
In his letter, Baresch talks about alchemical symbolism, something more typical of the XVII century than the XV. But we have to have one thing in mind: many of the alchemical symbols come from astrological symbols and this was what Baresch saw in the Voynich, no only in the images but also in the script.
