14-05-2019, 01:24 PM
(14-05-2019, 12:52 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hello Monica,
The approach of trying to interpret Voynich plants in the "as is" fashion has been leading to dead end for a hundred years. It just leads to a conclusion that such plants do not exist. Something would still not fit - this or that "does not look like that"
What I consider promising is the mnemonics approach which implies that the artists's task was to convey essential mnemonics through his plant drawings rather than depicting them in naturalistic fashion.
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The plants do exist. It is the drawings that can be off a bit, so your mnemonics idea makes sense. Take You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. for example. As a gardner i was fascinated b this strange plant. When i was able to translate it said it caused an itch like scabies and to urinate on it to stop the itching. I found the plant on the endangered species list and it is now currently only found in cyprus. "Centaurea akamantis is a semi-woody herbaceous plant (= subshrub) with drooping shoots up to 60 cm long. Its leaves are alternate and compound, divided either once or twice. The greyish-green leaflets are linear or spear-shaped..." You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. Yet very few pictures of the plant show the spear shaped leaves.