08-11-2017, 11:12 AM
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(08-11-2017, 10:45 AM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
- That of Stephen Bax, working on labels and images and trying to correlate visual and linguistic data. Chesire doesn't try to systematically analyse labels.
I know Bax is often cited for this, but isn't that the first thing everybody does... work out the images and try to figure out the "labels" next to them? Bax says in the video that he got the method from the books he cited in his video.
To me it's just common sense to try to relate the images to the text nearby—I'm sure it is to most people. If there were no images, how many people would be studying the VMS?
If one does a search of Voynich labels on Google, prior to 2000, interpreting the labels (in relation to the imagery) is a frequently discussed topic.
From René Zandbergen in 1997:
"I am still pursuing these documents, but first indications are that the short labels near the stars in our zodiac do not match well with the names used in these two documents." (Sherwood also looked extensively at labels, Stolfi talks about them, and there are many more early references to label-image relationships.)
I would agree with you that it's strange that Cheshire does not appear to have done this (or at least doesn't mention it).