tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post1446063165600659478..comments2024-03-20T03:33:22.357-07:00Comments on Skeptophilia: Voynich Manuscript reduxGordon Bonnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06003472005971594466noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-36820815736658288142011-12-05T05:51:49.582-08:002011-12-05T05:51:49.582-08:00A fair bit of serious research has been done on wh...A fair bit of serious research has been done on what has been proven to be, at least, a genuine 15thC production. If it were a typiit included a normal European herbal, we should probably be able to identify the plants (with or without written text). But the cost in materials and labour, plus the lack of type-matches in other medieval works, does suggest it is not a hoax, but a unique example of its style.. and therefore probably of its script. Whether or not itis encoded, I couldn't say. Most of the cryptographers apparently think so. It seems to me that people tend to excuse what they cannot understand by blaming the book, calling it an alien gift, or a hoax, or a 'mystery'. But I rather think it's simply derived from a foreign original.D.O'Donovan.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02954991461523152480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-25164779539027959582011-12-04T04:41:31.040-08:002011-12-04T04:41:31.040-08:00Your conclusions about the consequences of this gr...Your conclusions about the consequences of this growing gullibility are a thrill to read in their clarity and almost prophetic accuracy. <br />and I check for progress on the Voynich almost every morning after coffee, have for years.<br />(My latest spoof palindrome headline on my site had two intentional misspellings, and I wrote "Where's the copy editor, out sleeping in A TOYOTA?"<br />The point is that there appears to be NO research adviser at these major press organizations. And then the writers, unchained, spew what they will, between sit-ups under Toyotas, as you love to say.jsolberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06841488269105958013noreply@blogger.com