Weiler thinks he has found a new approach to deciphering the VMS, by expanding the 9 as an abbreviation symbol, the same way they do in Latin (except he made a couple of mistakes in interpreting the Latin way of doing it):
but this has been tried by countless researchers who have a better knowledge of medieval Latin than Weiler.
So Weiler is saying the 9 character is to be interpreted the same way it was used in medieval Latin manuscripts (except he didn't quite get it right, but he got the concept right). And for some reason, even though this is clearly new to him, he thinks he can read it better than trained Latin palaeographers and historians.
That's where the preview ends. The actual decipherment is in the next (not-yet-posted) chapter.
Quote:To summarise, there are three meanings for the abbreviation character 9, which depend on the respective position in the text.
but this has been tried by countless researchers who have a better knowledge of medieval Latin than Weiler.
Quote:These three meanings enable us to completely decode the first character of the Voynich code and we can now commence with creating a »translation guide«.
So Weiler is saying the 9 character is to be interpreted the same way it was used in medieval Latin manuscripts (except he didn't quite get it right, but he got the concept right). And for some reason, even though this is clearly new to him, he thinks he can read it better than trained Latin palaeographers and historians.
That's where the preview ends. The actual decipherment is in the next (not-yet-posted) chapter.