10-05-2020, 10:18 PM
Understanding why people do the things that they do is a mystery which makes the Voynich manuscript mystery seem trivial.
Some might say that the authors of the Voynich just had too much time on their hands and too much money to spend and they certainly had no idea of the consequences of their actions. I suppose there were few alternative hobbies or distractions then and I guess they thought that what they wrote had utility. I suppose there were a lot of manuscripts written then that the authors of which thought they had utility, even though from a modern perspective in a practical sense they were useless.
Brothers at the Council of Basel, which ran for many years and achieved nothing, could easily have been distracted; assuming there is truth to my theory, which of course there may not.
Some might say that the authors of the Voynich just had too much time on their hands and too much money to spend and they certainly had no idea of the consequences of their actions. I suppose there were few alternative hobbies or distractions then and I guess they thought that what they wrote had utility. I suppose there were a lot of manuscripts written then that the authors of which thought they had utility, even though from a modern perspective in a practical sense they were useless.
Brothers at the Council of Basel, which ran for many years and achieved nothing, could easily have been distracted; assuming there is truth to my theory, which of course there may not.