18-08-2017, 10:02 PM
(18-08-2017, 04:02 PM)nickpelling wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(18-08-2017, 02:40 PM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(18-08-2017, 11:21 AM)nickpelling wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Voynich research is easy, but constructing a Voynich research programme - by which I mean a concerted attack on an aspect of it that stands a chance of leading to genuine knowledge - is extraordinarily hard.
There's a big difference between the two.
If it is extraordinarily hard, a possible reason might be that you are trying to read something into the manuscript that does not exist there.
Planning and acting are two different types of activity. Almost no Voynich research is consciously planned, it's almost all a bunch of people trying stuff on no more than a whim.
The VMS has many unique features. Therefore it might be a good idea to use a plan for researching something unknown. However the most intuitive plan for researching something unknown is to compare it with something already known. The problem with this plan is that you will spend a lot of time while searching for traces of features that are not even there. It would be probably much more effective if you would research the unique features of the VMS.