04-01-2017, 05:12 PM
(04-01-2017, 08:50 AM)Wolfgang99 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
But let me understand… because in my thinking I always respect the relation between cause and effect.
People who wrote Voynich spent all the money to buy parchment (very expensive at that time) and then they could only pay for a clumsy scribe with a bad handwriting but only skilled in doing perfect circumferences.
Then they were untidy so pages of the book have many folds, equal each other and with arrows on them, but they were untidy.
Then they made a lot of holes with pin-maps, not only in the center, for tracing circumferences, but in a lot of point, for amusement.
Finally someone drew three gliphs (beginning of a paragraph) only in the first page and maybe one in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. or perhaps he only scribbled an “S” just to write something (and ripped roots from plant in central page of folio 101v and cut out Folio 74 (a zodiacal wheel) after binding because he needed to make a paper airplane.
Am I in tune with the common sense now?
The scribes did not have bad handwriting, I never said that. It's readable and reasonably neat, but they were far from expert with a pen.
There's a big difference between a calligrapher who can control each individual serif and stroke at a tiny scale, as your system suggests, and someone with reasonably neat handwriting. It's like the difference between a Sunday jogger and an Olympic athlete. A Sunday jogger can run circles around someone with no athletic ability and doesn't exercise, but they're not going to win any medals.
Plus, you are completely ignoring the rigid structure of the shapes and the repetitive nature of the text. Your system has to take these into account, as well.
You've had more than a year to use your own system to translate the manuscript. Why haven't you done it? Why are you asking us to do it (as you did in the first post)? You seem to think you need higher-resolution scans, but I think you are incorrect in this assumption. The scans are already three times the size of the original and quite clear. If your system works, you should be able to get a paragraph or two.

