Sorry Don, but for me cannons go straight onto the microscope pile, not least of all because of the subject matter. It just appears to be very easy to get convergent evolution in cylindrical designs.
There are ancient towers in the horn of Africa that look just like some of the VM containers.
I think more of interest to this thread "medieval history during period 1390-1440" are f.e.:medieval history during period 1390-1440
* the plague and the consequences
* mass executions because of religion
* different paleographical writings
* bookburning & religions
* chemical experiments
* philosophical movements
* cultural habits and feasts
Dear Davidsch,
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were referring to things that might be reflected in the VMS or helpful to a solution.
I have several history books I can send you to help with the other things. Please let me know if you want them.
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee
Dear Koen Gh.,
I bet you didn't look at the picture of the cannon firing in the VMS, did you? I don't think it is a generic cylinder or would be confused with a microscope.
I don't think you could have looked at Ellie's blog entry, either. You wouldn't have confused a microscope with the cannon.
Or are you saying a cannon, like a microscope, couldn't have been pictured in the VMS because they weren't yet invented? Your phrasing in your rush to denial kind of leaves the interpretation of your answer open to question.
I think the English were using cannons in battle as early as 1346 at the Battle of Crécy. A few years later, still in the Fourteenth Century, they were used by the English at Agincourt and the siege of Calais. Others were using cannons much earlier.
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee
Dear Davidsch,
RE: "I think more of interest to this thread "medieval history during period 1390-1440" are f.e.:m
istory during period 1390-1440
* different paleographical writings"
I have been in touch with a paleographer at York University who is interested in the Voynich Manuscript and who assures me that it matches no known English or other language handwriting sample known to paleographers. She has done the checking. That convinced me - don't know about you.
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee
(24-08-2016, 04:13 PM)don of tallahassee Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Dear Davidsch,
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were referring to things that might be reflected in the VMS or helpful to a solution.
I have several history books I can send you to help with the other things. Please let me know if you want them.
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee
you can put here whatever you think is suitable Don, I am only providing you the handles for specific fields of interest
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istory during period 1390-1440
* different paleographical writings"
I have been in touch with a paleographer at York University who is interested in the Voynich Manuscript and who assures me that it matches no known English or other language handwriting sample known to paleographers. She has done the checking. That convinced me - don't know about you.
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee
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I don't care about it. I'm gonna go my way as Lenny K. said.
Quote: I have been in touch with a paleographer at York University who is interested in the Voynich Manuscript and who assures me that it matches no known English or other language handwriting sample known to paleographers. She has done the checking. That convinced me - don't know about you.
Hi Don,
Do you have anything you can release as to her exact comments? Would be interesting reading.
It isn't fascinating reading.
I offered $100.00 (US) to her in my first letter to answer whether the text in the VMS was written by any known English author/writer, maybe one with some connection to York. She wrote back the above info. I paid the money (in my email I offered to pay it before the info was sent). I didn't expect to pay for a long involved answer and didn't get one. I thought I got my money's worth, maybe more, even though it wasn't what I was hoping to read.
She is an expert of medieval paleography and internationally known.
I'm not.
Other than her expression of a continuing interest in the VMS, she didn't say much else, none of interest to you.
I chose her simply because of her job title and the blurb that was written about her, a publication of hers that I read and the fact that she is based in York, England, with which I believe the author of the VMS had some connection.
It is hard eliciting information from true experts. They don't seem to mind working for relative peanuts, though, if they think their information is truly valued. I've tried it several times, always gotten swift results and been happy to spend the money if it means I don't have to do the work involved all by myself with less encompassing or universally accepted results.
Sometimes the answers aren't what I was hoping for, but they still save me a lot of time and labor getting them the hard way.
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee
I forgot. She did say if she had ever found any similarities (I gather she had looked before I asked), she would have been in touch with the Yale people, an attitude I certainly understand. I think she knows what the implications of such a discovery would be, especially if a particular author/scribe can be pinpointed in space and time.
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee
About a year ago i entered a solution to a problem a companies had. They were struggling with the problem at least 10 years.
For me, it was well known how to solve it, for at least 15 years, but i am not very keen on sharing my business secrets.
However, through a site, i could deposit my solution anonymous in detail.
That way they paid me some thousand dollars and everybody is happy.
What i want to say is: one expert is just one expert. Even 100 experts are just 100 experts.
There is always somebody with another creative solution, if it would have been obvious, it would have been solved already.
So, the solution can not be found in the "regular scene". Therefore i am not so keen on the "manuscript experts".
To get a transcript of a famous poem of a famous manuscript, i have to put in a huge amount of work.
They hide their knowledge and transcriptions on very well known manuscripts are guarded as if it is gold.
On the other hand they write that such manuscript are the heritage of "their country and their people", and yet, they hide the contents from them.
It makes me angry and disappointed. But i've found this same behavior in almost every country in Europe.