04-03-2016, 09:59 PM
(04-03-2016, 09:35 PM)Emma May Smith wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(02-03-2016, 11:08 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As I hinted at Stephen Bax's site, while anagramming would be a very bad idea of our Voynich author, this doesn't exclude that he made the unfortunate choice of putting this very bad idea into effect.
It would make the 'inversion' nearly impossible and we'd be really stuck. (Which happens to be where we are ....)
New theory: The Feckless Encipherer. The writer of the Voynich Manuscript sought to encipher his work but didn't understand how ciphers worked. Thus he invented a one-way cipher which neither he, nor anybody else, could ever hope to undo. It explains everything!
If it were a short manuscript, this might be worth considering.
But a manuscript that probably took years? Most cipherers would discover it was a one-way system and likely adjust it rather than continuing on for hundreds of pages. I'm not ruling out the possibility, but the likelihood seems low.