If it feels like an Alberti Cipher it is one!
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(12-05-2017, 06:27 AM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Stellar, pleeeeease realize that this cipher has just the same problem as your previous one. It allows for so much freedom that YOU entirely decide what a page will be about. This is not how it works at all.

Many of the constellations you include above are modern ones. For example:

"Camelopardalis You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. or the Giraffe You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a large, faint grouping of stars in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. The constellation was introduced in 1612 (or 1613) by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.."

And then when I tell you this is impossible, you just shrug it off and look for some other word that fits. This is not how reading a text works. The text tells the reader what it's about, not the other way around. 

If enough people told you the Voynich is about the American Civil War, your cipher would allow you to make it about the civil war. Do you see how this is highly problematic?
Let us not forget the planet did not have light pollution from electricity at night to affect star gazing back then in the 15th century.

@Koen

This a debate forum about the Voynich Koen and I know what this is and the word for the constellation has ancient etymology !!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a part of history so get your facts right please.

The encyclopedist Vincent de Beauvais, in his Speculum Naturale (1225), described it under three different names (anabulla, camelopardo, and orasius), apparently without realizing it. Albertus Magnus repeated the mistake in his thirteenth-century De Animalibus, using anabula, camelopardulus, and oraflus. Anabula probably comes from the Ethiopians, who called it nabin; and orafle was used in Old French. In Afrikaans it is called kameelperd. and in Zulu indlulamethi. But my personal favorite is the Swahili word twiga—which sounds the way a giraffe looks. [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., Lynn Sherr, p.19.]

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Book xv. deals with astronomy: the moon, the stars, the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., the sun, the planets, the seasons and the calendar.

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RE: If it feels like an Alberti Cipher it is one! - by coded - 12-05-2017, 07:24 AM

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