11-09-2016, 09:20 AM
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JKP
I hold the opinion, and I repeat that in my opinion it must take enormous will-power to concentrate on the chosen line (I will retract 'story' because it could be mis-intepreted to mean 'fiction' rather than 'historical narrative').
Please do not imagine that what I say is all about myself. I am speaking about the history of Voynich studies, and this is a constant in its history, from before the time I was born.
Newbold raised the question, however indirectly, of neo-Pythagorean influence in the manuscript. (His article to the Franciscan journal is actually describing a neo-pythagorean intepretation of one of the folios).
Soon afterwards, people began considering Spain and the Balearics. People have noticed an Iberian influence over and over again, but it is lost - chiefly I think because of the emphasis which was placed by Voynich on the Rudolf story.
With all the other accounts of the manuscript - the New World theory; Nahuatl theory; Balkans theory and even the new claimed translation which has the language 'Old Czech' we have a universe of potential distractions from researching any particular line. I specified "European Christian" because no-body has paid much attention to the non-Christian population.
I would add that had I made the following comment about another member, I rather think you would consider it an ad.hominem.
Koen -
apologies for the off-topic reply here.
I hold the opinion, and I repeat that in my opinion it must take enormous will-power to concentrate on the chosen line (I will retract 'story' because it could be mis-intepreted to mean 'fiction' rather than 'historical narrative').
Please do not imagine that what I say is all about myself. I am speaking about the history of Voynich studies, and this is a constant in its history, from before the time I was born.
Newbold raised the question, however indirectly, of neo-Pythagorean influence in the manuscript. (His article to the Franciscan journal is actually describing a neo-pythagorean intepretation of one of the folios).
Soon afterwards, people began considering Spain and the Balearics. People have noticed an Iberian influence over and over again, but it is lost - chiefly I think because of the emphasis which was placed by Voynich on the Rudolf story.
With all the other accounts of the manuscript - the New World theory; Nahuatl theory; Balkans theory and even the new claimed translation which has the language 'Old Czech' we have a universe of potential distractions from researching any particular line. I specified "European Christian" because no-body has paid much attention to the non-Christian population.
I would add that had I made the following comment about another member, I rather think you would consider it an ad.hominem.
Quote:... stop the constant insinuations that researchers are ignoring the things that interest you ... without the constant finger pointing.
Koen -
apologies for the off-topic reply here.