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RE: 68r1 and 2 - MarcoP - 12-12-2021
(12-12-2021, 11:27 AM)Hider Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There is no doubt that there are numbers written on this map.
Actually, there are so many doubts that we are not even sure that there is anything meaningful in the whole manuscript. I think that skepticism is the best approach, given how little we understand of the structure of Voynichese.
RE: 68r1 and 2 - Koen G - 12-12-2021
(12-12-2021, 10:54 AM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Morphologically, star labels are not too different from Voynichese paragraph "words": this also is not in favor of the idea that they are coordinates (or numbers).
That is, unless the VM text is number-heavy, or "words" can double as numbers.
What argues against coordinates for me is the fact that the stars are spaced rather evenly. These are not the kinds of diagrams where I would expect exact coordinates to be of much importance.
RE: 68r1 and 2 - Hider - 13-12-2021
(12-12-2021, 10:54 AM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I am not aware of medieval star maps where stars are labelled with coordinates. Labels typically were names, or numbers pointing to paragraphs or entries in a table.
Morphologically, star labels are not too different from Voynichese paragraph "words": this also is not in favor of the idea that they are coordinates (or numbers).
Scientific ideas go through three stages:
1) bullshit!
2) harm!
3) we thought exactly that from the beginning.
Let's wait for the third stage.