19-09-2019, 10:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 19-09-2019, 10:43 PM by Mark Knowles.)
(19-09-2019, 10:26 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:The author may just have loved ciphers and wanted an excuse to write a book in cipher.
That theory says nothing about our ability to decrypt it. What made this author special, that he could encrypt a book on a fashion that he could decrypt it but we couldn't?
I didn't think that was your question. I thought your question was one of motivation.
I would say our author was highly intelligent and whilst some other renaissance individuals manifested their intelligence in one way, he manifested his intelligence in this way.
I should add the fact that I think the author was highly intelligent also means that I don't think he was simply copying from other books, but his own ideas and imagination influenced many of the drawings that we see in the manuscript.
(19-09-2019, 10:26 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:The author may just have loved ciphers and wanted an excuse to write a book in cipher.
That theory says nothing about our ability to decrypt it. What made this author special, that he could encrypt a book on a fashion that he could decrypt it but we couldn't?
Maybe he was a man of the renaissance, which produced many marvels and works of genius.