[Article] What Will It Take to Solve the Voynich Manuscript?

[ReneZ]

I missed that one, but all the better.

The Voynich is a truly interdisciplinary object. To solve it convincingly will require a combination of skills that are unlikely to have been mastered by a single person.

What one might argue about is that you should only let experts work on the individual areas. In my opinion, a layman who has been working on a topic for years can just as well cooperate. One should not build a front between scholars and laymen ( linguists, historians, cryptologists, etc. against "non-experts" ).

Fortunately, the experts in relevant fields for the Voynich MS that I know are very much aware of, and receptive for serious, significant, or otherwise interesting work of non-experts.

It has to be said at the same time that the lay people (myself included) are not in a good position to judge whether their own work is relevant, completely off the mark, or anywhere in between.

The experts can, however, see this immediately.