Unraveling the Voynich Codex

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Authors: Janick, Jules, Tucker, Arthur O.

However, based on identification of New World plants, animals, a mineral, as well as cities and volcanos of Central Mexico, the authors of this book reveal that the codex is clearly a document of colonial New Spain...

It really stuns me that botanists (of all people) would say this.

Almost every plant in the New World has an analog in the Old World (a plant that looks the same or very nearly the same) and the VMS drawings are not detailed enough to make distinctions. Even with a microscope it is sometimes difficult to tell them apart. PLUS many Old World plants are circumboreal, they grow everywhere, so it's not possible from a drawing to distinguish their origins.


The same is true of animals, especially fish. The fish they identified from the crude VMS drawing resembles Old World fish just as much as New World fish.


And volcanoes? There's no evidence yet that the eye shape on the "map" page (or on any other page) is a volcano. It might be, BUT it could be many other things. Even if we knew for certain it was a volcano, it is just as likely to be Vesuvius (which is eye-shaped) as any Mexican volcano.