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New solution announced by Nicholas Gibbs - davidjackson - 07-09-2017
From today's the times:
An increasing tendency to check “Dr Google” for worrying symptoms is driving health anxiety (Credit: PA)
The Italian artist Luigi Serafini wrote the Codex Seraphinianus in the 1970s with a writing system that still defies complete analysis. He has said there is no hidden meaning, and he wanted his alphabet to convey how children feel with books they cannot understand.
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The Book of Soyga is a 16th century Latin treatise on magic. The Elizabethan scholar John Dee was supposedly obsessed with deciphering the encrypted tables it contained. It was presumed lost until manuscripts were found in the British and Bodleian libraries in the 1990s, when the formula to construct the tables was uncovered. Their contents remain a mystery, however.
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Documents of the 18th century Great Enlightened Society of Oculists in Germany took 250 years to crack. Scholars realised that familiar letters were spaces and messages were in other symbols.
RE: New solution announced by Nicholas Gibbs - VViews - 07-09-2017
Thanks for the info davidjackson,
However there seems to be a problem with your link to the Times article above, which is behind a paywall anyway.
Here's an accessible version from the Times Literary Supplement, written by Gibbs himself:
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RE: New solution announced by Nicholas Gibbs - Koen G - 07-09-2017
It's in the "autumn fiction" issue.
Hmm. Seems like he recycled a bunch of common theories and something like Don's method for interpreting the text.
RE: New solution announced by Nicholas Gibbs - Davidsch - 07-09-2017
"The abbreviations correspond to the standard pattern of words used in the Herbarium Apuleius Platonicus – aq = aqua (water), dq = decoque / decoctio (decoction), con = confundo (mix), ris = radacis / radix (root), s aiij = seminis ana iij (3 grains each), etc. So the herbarium of the Voynich manuscript must therefore be a series of (“simple”) recipe ingredients with the necessary measures."
Eh, does the article continue, is there more? Or that's it?
RE: New solution announced by Nicholas Gibbs - -JKP- - 07-09-2017
It's gone viral. All the other news media are starting to pick up on it (free content I guess), which means the uncredited "observations" and incorrect terminology will now get the stamp of approval and veneer of correctness and respectability.
RE: New solution announced by Nicholas Gibbs - Anton - 07-09-2017
One would expect that the article entitled in this way would сontain at least some solution; it's a pity that there is none at all.
RE: New solution announced by Nicholas Gibbs - Patrick Lockerby - 08-09-2017
As I understand it, we have here a 'solution' based on the idea that each glyph abbreviates a word.
Query: how many unique words in such a vocabulary?
Query: how many unique words in any average herbal?
RE: New solution announced by Nicholas Gibbs - Anton - 08-09-2017
We don't have any solution here, that's the "problem".
RE: New solution announced by Nicholas Gibbs - Daniel Briggs - 09-09-2017
(08-09-2017, 03:17 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.We don't have any solution here, that's the "problem".
It's disheartening to see so many users of a certain other website seeing this and taking it for granted that it's been decoded, somehow, with of course no link to the proposed solution.
I mean, reporters, that's understood. I just thought the average reader would exercise more erudition than them.
RE: New solution announced by Nicholas Gibbs - Patrick Lockerby - 10-09-2017
As far as I can tell, only one person thinks that Gibbs has a correct solution, and that person is Gibbs. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. argues about it and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. about what language to use to discuss the Gibbs article in the Times Literary Supplement.
I feel sorry for You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: a voice of reason crying in the wilderness, or should that be 'wikimess'.
At least there's no mention of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
