Reviewer: DivineMarker - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 4, Subject: This looks so familiar.
Eh, I know I seen some of those symbols somewhere but not in any spoken language that is for sure. Reviewer: sirmerlin - favorite favorite favorite favorite - November 28, Subject: Consider this If languages have a way of rolling off the tongue when spoken properly; there should be some sort of rhythm to it. Picture instead of words these are musical chords. From my deduction of the first 30 pages there seems to be a pattern of the symbols indicating three "states" per symbol: these would be minor, mean and major.
In English there are two symbols for each letter in the alphabet. Lets assume three things: there are letters, capitol letters and bold font letters indicating the importance of each letter. Each symbol has two characters. Every "word", indicated by spaces, is a musical chord. For the first 30 or so pages I can see rythmatic patterns.
To me that would indicate either poetry, music or some other format displaying structure. Thereafter more symbols are added one or two at a time every so often. There are certain examples of similar format in modern languages such as vocabulary books for children and, this may be a stretch for some music.
This isn't a solution by any stretch of the imagination but something to consider. When we open a book of botany what do we find? Description of plants with texts and images. Scientific names and common use of plants. These plants are not common, but they have one thing that is repeated in several pages : the flowers can contain one or more persons. It seems that some of the pictures describe how to prepare special baths , uploading some flowers with pollen or substances.
Are empty and are filtered with another plant. They can be different concentrations , each with a different purpose. The compositions included in the later flowers that are empty are described in the penultimate section of the book: the ingredients of the flowers are drawn in the first part of the book if you look carefully. Reviewer: AnnaTaliesin - favorite favorite favorite favorite - October 22, Subject: possible meaning of the Voynich manuscript the manuscript looks to me, like an old healers book.
Reviewer: sinduatlantis - favorite favorite favorite - October 8, Subject: just my opinion Reviewer: ReBytes - favorite favorite favorite favorite - October 6, Subject: My opinion its no hoax Looking at the proficiency the lettering was made I dint believe its a hoax.
It would take a person months of training to get the lettering so consistent for the whole manuscript. I do believe its a real language. I also do believe it contains information about the diagrams. Trying to disregard the text and only looking at the diagrams will not give much insight since any one drawing can be interpreted a thousand different ways. The theory of it being a coded text I also disregard since the coding mechanisms for the dated time was primitive but very effective back then.
But master cryptographers with computers today will have no problem breaking the code. I believe the reason it is so difficult to get meaning from the text is because the base system of the writing is something that is not known. This might indicate the "peasant" actually had a high intellect in a remote area who had no access to books or anyone who could write. Reviewer: maishmaish - - September 23, Subject: unhelpful i believe any knowledge is supreme only if it is understood and put to use for the good of humanity.
Reviewer: Jabberwoky1 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - September 9, Subject: voynich manuscript I believe if yo try to read the images rather than the text you get the "picture" I believe it is showing the cycle,s of life ie the seasons, the cycles of eclipse,s of the sun.
The weather. A woman's cycle. When I first looked at this I decided to look at the images Rather than try to de cipher the text of which some appear To resemble the Russian alphabet. Further to this review, if you look at the sketches of the buildings they look extraordinary like the Kremlin. As to cycles of life take a look at the sketches of women, have the naughty ones been removed.
Reviewer: naveensippy - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - August 6, Subject: suggested this is a herb formulas book for women problems while i viewing this book i noticed the drawings and details of plants are in its physical looks and the surrounding text is supposed to be the information regarding the plant. Some last pages are the formulation and potions and medications compositions made with the help of these herbs and plants for women related problems.
Reviewer: tyguk - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - July 23, Subject: Language This in my opinion is not a language whatsoever its a code, although some of the symbols are familiar such as the Greek letter R,T,TH, and many more in lower case. Also the manuscript has nothing to do with plants its just a means of confusion. The mind has to be opened away from 21st century modern computerized motions then taken back to see the manuscripts future.
How Fauna based life form migrate from plant to animal - e. The Pictures are 28, 30 leaf, Red Green - red green transformations. Nickel - Zinc Lunar period cycles. Some pictures show the DNA chain.
The women in the pictures represent the Borgship Mother earth. Other websites show 3d interpretation of the pictures, suggesting prior knowledge. The Black hole star in the sky. I give the book a low rating because it is just another example of this asshole lying to every living human in the world. Adam and Eve. Adam and Evil! Fu John! Reviewer: Ramesh - favorite favorite - June 25, Subject: The Voynich Manuscript While reviewing the manuscript, it gives me the feeling that the writer is attempting to convey about the type of plants which were available in the vicinity.
Another observation: a zodiac has been drawn, probably to indicate the period when such plants were present in their surroundings. Read the supposed expert's testimony. He doubts the translation and scrutiny of tens of thousands of scholars for 3, years Old Testament , says there were no "Hebrews" it's a mistranslation as he states , or "Israel" ditto and therefor the entire world is on the wrong "track". While to me this language does appear to be some form of Latin written without grammatical knowledge not by scholars, at least not as we view them , for your hero to state that the entire Bible is invalid is hubris beyond belief.
I don't know what this manuscript is or is not. I do know that, viewing it in its entirety, I was left with an uncomfortable "feeling". I won't change my world view based upon one arrogant man's self aggrandized assumptions. Why isn't he chairing a department at Yale, why isn't he world famous, if he's correct? By their fruits ye shall know them. Reviewer: WaldorfTBeagle - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - June 22, Subject: People think too hard about this People think too hard about this.
Along With this, some German and Latin words can also be found in the book. The book contains many illustrations, diagrams, pictures, and images that are the specialty of this codex.
The codex was handwritten, and all the illustrations were hand-drawn. Because the manuscript is ancient, the graphics are quite blurry yet super fascinating to look at. The book is a masterpiece that contains unmatchable and unbeatable work done in that time of the world.
The manuscript shows a glimpse of the amount of energy, time, and knowledge in creating this manuscript. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. A short summary of this paper. Who authored the manuscript? What is its title? According to many who have had the opportunity to study the strange manuscript, it contains diagrams of totally unrecognizable plant species and celestial charts.
The Voynich manuscript was introduced to the modern world in when antique dealer Wilfrid Voynich acquired it. According to analysis, the writing of the Voynich manuscript contains around 25 different characters written from left to right.
It was determined that the text was written fluently as if the author of the mysterious text knew the language to perfection, as opposed to someone translating the text from a cypher, who would have stopped after writing each character. Because it contains a language that cannot be found anywhere else on the planet and given the fact that the ancient manuscript depicts star charts that are unknown to us, many have proposed that the Voynich Manuscript could have been created by a being, not from Earth.
Edward Kelley - Dee's companion in Prague, Edward Kelley, was a self-styled alchemist who claimed to be able to turn copper into gold by means of a secret powder which he had dug out of a Bishop's tomb in Wales.
As Dee's scrier, he claimed to be able to invoke angels through a crystal ball, and had long conversations with them - which Dee dutifully noted down. The angel's language was called Enochian, after Enoch, the Biblical father of Methuselah; according to legend, he had been taken on a tour of Heaven by angels, and later written a book about what he saw there.
Several people have suggested that, just as Kelley invented Enochian to dupe Dee, he could have fabricated the Voynich manuscript to swindle the Emperor who was already paying Kelley for his supposed alchemical expertise. However, if Roger Bacon is not the author of the Voynich manuscript, Kelley's connection to the manuscript is just as vacuous as Dee's.
Wilfrid Voynich was often suspected of having fabricated the Voynich manuscript himself. As an antique book dealer, he probably had the necessary knowledge and means; and a "lost book" by Roger Bacon would have been worth a fortune. However, by expert dating of the manuscript, and the recent discovery of Baresch's letter to Kircher, that possibility has been eliminated. He was a specialist in herbal medicine, Rudolph II's personal physician, and curator of his botanical gardens.
Voynich, and many other people after him, concluded from this "signature" that Jacobus owned the Voynich manuscript before Baresch, and saw in that a confirmation of Raphael's story.
Others have suggested that Jacobus himself could be the author. However, that writing does not match Jacobus's signature, as found in a document recently located by Jan Hurich. So it is still possible that the writing on page f1r was added by a later owner or librarian, and is only this person's guess as to the book's author. In the Jesuit history books that were available to Kircher, Jesuit- educated Jacobus is the only alchemist or doctor from Rudolf's court who deserves a full-page entry, while, for example, Tycho Brahe is barely mentioned.
Moreover, the chemicals applied by Voynich have so degraded the vellum that hardly a trace of the signature can be seen today; thus there is also the suspicion that the signature was fabricated by Voynich in order to strengthen the Roger Bacon theory. Jan Marci met Kircher when he led a delegation from Charles University to Rome in ; and over the next 27 years, the two scholars exchanged many letters on a variety of scientific subjects.
Marci's trip was part of a continuing struggle by the secularist side of the University to maintain their independence from the Jesuits, who ran the rival Clementinum college in Prague. In spite of those efforts, the two universities were merged in , under Jesuit control.
It has therefore been speculated that political animosity against the Jesuits led Marci to fabricate Baresch's letters, and later the Voynich manuscript, in an attempt to expose and discredit their "star" Kircher.
Marci's personality and knowledge appear to have been adequate for this task; and Kircher, a "Dr. Know-It-All" who is today remembered more by his egregious mistakes than by his genuine accomplishments, was an easy target. Indeed, Baresch's letter bears some resemblance to a hoax that orientalist Andreas Mueller once played on Kircher. Mueller concocted an unintelligible manuscript and sent it to Kircher with a note explaining that it had come from Egypt.
He asked Kircher for a translation, and Kircher, reportedly, produced one at once. It is worth noting that the only proofs of Georg Baresch's existence are three letters sent to Kircher: one by Baresch , and two by Marci about a year later.
It is also curious that the correspondence between Marci and Kircher ends in , precisely with the Voynich manuscript "cover letter". However, Marci's secret grudge against the Jesuits is pure conjecture: a faithful Catholic, he himself had studied to become a Jesuit, and shortly before his death in he was granted honorary membership in their Order. Raphael Mnishovsky, the friend of Marci who was the reputed source of Bacon's story, was himself a cryptographer among many other things , and apparently invented a cipher which he claimed was uncrackable ca.
This has led to the theory that he produced the Voynich manuscript as a practical demonstration of his cipher - and made poor Baresch his unwitting "guinea pig". After Kircher published his book on Coptic, Raphael so the theory goes may have thought that stumping him would be a much better trophy than stumping Baresch, and convinced the alchemist to ask the Jesuit's help.
He would have invented the Roger Bacon story to motivate Baresch. Indeed, the disclaimer in the Voynich manuscript cover letter could mean that Marci suspected a lie. However, there is no definite evidence for this theory. Anthony Ascham - Dr. Leonell Strong, a cancer research scientist and amateur cryptographer, tried to decipher the Voynich manuscript. Strong said that the solution to the Voynich manuscript was a "peculiar double system of arithmetical progressions of a multiple alphabet".
Strong claimed that the plaintext revealed the Voynich manuscript to be written by the 16th century English author Anthony Ascham, whose works include A Little Herbal, published in Although the Voynich manuscript does contain sections resembling an herbal, the main argument against this theory is that it is unknown where Anthony would have obtained such literary and cryptographic knowledge.
Illustrations The illustrations of the manuscript shed little light on the precise nature of its text but imply that the book consists of six "sections", with different styles and subject matter. Except for the last section, which contains only text, almost every page contains at least one illustration.
Following are the sections and their conventional names One series of 12 diagrams depicts conventional symbols for the zodiacal constellations two fish for Pisces, a bull for Taurus, a hunter with crossbow for Sagittarius, etc. Each of these has 30 female figures arranged in two or more concentric bands.
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