05-10-2019, 12:30 AM
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A paper on the "map theory" ( Jürgen Wastl and Danielle Feger )
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I just read it and you know what? I could be wrong, but it doesn't have the feeling of conclusions that the authors arrived at on their own.
It has the feeling of being cobbled together from all the different things people have been writing about for years on their blogs (including mine and probably also Diane's) but which are not credited (with the exception of Nick Pelling who is probably only credited because he has a book on the subject).
You know why it feels that way to me? because several of the ideas are not linked to each other in any logical way... here we have the lighthouse idea, here we have the elements idea, here we have the [insert your choice] idea... but the real relationships between them and the logic from which they are connected has not been included.
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In the spirit of declaring influences of Voynich researchers on my thinking about this page, I can only really say that Nick Pelling's ideas had quite a bit of influence on my thinking, though a lot of my thinking is quite my own. It is possible I may have picked up the odd idea elsewhere, but if so they were very minor. Obviously I was influenced by some non-Voynich researchers' work.