23-09-2019, 12:03 PM
(23-09-2019, 10:35 AM)VViews wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think 2 should not be underestimated. The pleasure of crafting an elegant system, especially one that outsiders can't read. Maro has been described as "ingenious", "bizarre" and "insufferably pedantic" and I wouldn't be surprised if the creator(s) of the Voynich fit that description too.
Maybe we should start calling this the mad scientist theory. The trope of the mad scientist that many of us who've grown up with TV are familiar with is definitely an anachronism when extended back to the middle ages. But I reckon there have always been people who have been in equal measures highly intelligent and highly eccentric, to the point of being extremely hard for nearly all other people to relate to. I'm sure this manifested very differently, however, in an age where acquiring, trading, and using knowledge were necessarily social and power-wielding activities.