31-03-2016, 09:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 31-03-2016, 09:41 AM by Diane.
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VViews,
perhaps the guy just ran out of things to say.
Two other possibilities occur to me -
one is that the text from which he was copying had been damaged (e.g. by fire or water) and couldn't be read in that section, apart from a few glyphs. (Interesting argument against it being in cipher, btw).
another possibility - that the diagram shows something like an island (that variation on the "star-fish" sort of emblem tends to mean the highest point, usually geographical) and that no information was available about measures, star-elevations, or whatever else to that side.
One of the ways I know which Voynich writers are good to follow is whether they are content with this sort of hypothesising, calling it a 'theory' or whether they accept it's just a passing fancy and do the solid research needed to discover if there's a grain of truth to it.
I'd estimate that investigating both those possibilities would take at least three week's solid work in a library, and that even so the first is hardly likely to be proveable, either way.
What do you think?
perhaps the guy just ran out of things to say.
Two other possibilities occur to me -
one is that the text from which he was copying had been damaged (e.g. by fire or water) and couldn't be read in that section, apart from a few glyphs. (Interesting argument against it being in cipher, btw).
another possibility - that the diagram shows something like an island (that variation on the "star-fish" sort of emblem tends to mean the highest point, usually geographical) and that no information was available about measures, star-elevations, or whatever else to that side.
One of the ways I know which Voynich writers are good to follow is whether they are content with this sort of hypothesising, calling it a 'theory' or whether they accept it's just a passing fancy and do the solid research needed to discover if there's a grain of truth to it.
I'd estimate that investigating both those possibilities would take at least three week's solid work in a library, and that even so the first is hardly likely to be proveable, either way.
What do you think?