12-01-2017, 01:01 PM
Quote:But if you look really well, you will see that in every drawing there are things that do not match with the real world !
That is true, but that does not mean that the plants do not match with the real world. What does not match, is their depiction, not the plant behind it. The very reasonable explanation for that is the mnemonics concept. Provisionally applied, it gives very promising results.
Quote:Searching for the exact names or identical brothers or sisters in the kingdom of plants, will therefore always remain fruitless.
This assumption is a bit outdated. See e.g. the discussion in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. thread.
Of course, as in any medieval herbal, there may be imaginary plants there, but there are literally no reasons to suppose that all plants are imaginary.
Quote:It is my belief that the author of the Voynich is into medieval Aristotelian wisdom, and wants to create a mood within he can tells us something.
If you look at the label density in the botanical folio space (available on voynichese.com) you probably will agree that, with this apparently conspective nature, there is no way for the botanical section to be a philosophical narrative.