Interesting.
I did buy an exact copy of the book, so interesting to peruse.
But, I bet this theory gets shot down. But it’s an interesting one and seems plausible to me.
If anyone wants to know what it says, private mail me.
Not buying it.
Some of the best cryptologists in the world have had a go at the Voynich. They would have thought of this.
Ping.
It is a long-winded old version of the modern “please don’t pee in our pool, we don’t swim in your toilet”
Crackpot news from Daily Mail. What a miserable website that is to navigate *ugh*.
The article says he is unable to translate much of it, but doesn’t say anything about the parts he did “translate”, which I suspect amounts to exactly nothing, otherwise this would be bigger news.
Maybe it’s the lyrics to that famous hot tub song.
Was the title “What happened”?
I understand that no botanist has ever been able to identify any of the plants drawn in the Voynich Manuscript. If this were a book of recipes for aromatherapies using herbal potions, as the good medicinal historian claims, don’t you think those instructions would show one illustrations of the real herbs one would be using to make the recipe, and not some fanciful plant the would be potion maker would never be able to find? Or, is it that, as the good historian would have us believe, there’s a missing decoder index that shows the would be mixologist, once he finds a matching fanciful image in the purported missing “index,” that there’s another image of what the real plant that actually he needs to go looking for really looks like to use in his aromatherapy formula? Seems a little “around the barn” in the manuscript author’s methodology, to me.
I refer the reader to William of Occam and his very useful Razor. ‘Tis much too complicated to be the likely explanation.
