Diane wrote: "Since there are now quite a number of other Voynich authors who have followed the pioneers into the area of eastern Greek culture, medieval Constantinople and the wider Byzantine sphere, and some who argue that the manuscript passed from this or that region to another at thus-and-thus a time in history, may I introduce you to the style of Entanglement diagrams in that context."
This is a big assumption. Some Voynich authors and researchers are not following the pioneers at all. They aren't even reading the pioneers (which isn't necessarily a bad thing since many of the pioneers were wrong, Voynichese is NOT a form of Greek microwriting shorthand). Some of the researchers have followed trails into areas based on their research interests and on following up clues that took them independently into these places, not because they copied YOU. You always word things in a way that insults their intelligence and diminishes their research skills.
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It's impossible to follow the history of herbal manuscripts without ending up at least part of the time in Greece, since Dioscorides is one of the major exemplars for medieval herbal manuscripts that were brought back during the Crusades and those that were created a couple of centuries later in Lombardy and copied throughout Europe.
The study of classical Greece was all the rage in the late 14th and 15th century. There was quite big revival of teaching the Greek language in the 15th century so scholars could read the original manuscripts and those that had been extensively copied in Europe in the Middle Ages. Medieval manuscripts are suffused with classical literature, science, and medicine, so it stands to reason that there might be some echo of this is the VMS as well, regardless of whether someone from outside Europe was involved.
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You keep referring to people outside the Voynich community who have degrees as though they are somehow always right and somehow "better" than people within the Voynich community, many of whom ALSO have multiple degrees (and many of whom have excellent research skills even if they don't have degrees).
Why can't you present the information about other research and researchers without running down those who are working so hard to solve this puzzler?
This is a big assumption. Some Voynich authors and researchers are not following the pioneers at all. They aren't even reading the pioneers (which isn't necessarily a bad thing since many of the pioneers were wrong, Voynichese is NOT a form of Greek microwriting shorthand). Some of the researchers have followed trails into areas based on their research interests and on following up clues that took them independently into these places, not because they copied YOU. You always word things in a way that insults their intelligence and diminishes their research skills.
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It's impossible to follow the history of herbal manuscripts without ending up at least part of the time in Greece, since Dioscorides is one of the major exemplars for medieval herbal manuscripts that were brought back during the Crusades and those that were created a couple of centuries later in Lombardy and copied throughout Europe.
The study of classical Greece was all the rage in the late 14th and 15th century. There was quite big revival of teaching the Greek language in the 15th century so scholars could read the original manuscripts and those that had been extensively copied in Europe in the Middle Ages. Medieval manuscripts are suffused with classical literature, science, and medicine, so it stands to reason that there might be some echo of this is the VMS as well, regardless of whether someone from outside Europe was involved.
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You keep referring to people outside the Voynich community who have degrees as though they are somehow always right and somehow "better" than people within the Voynich community, many of whom ALSO have multiple degrees (and many of whom have excellent research skills even if they don't have degrees).
Why can't you present the information about other research and researchers without running down those who are working so hard to solve this puzzler?