30-07-2020, 09:58 PM
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding", Leonardo da Vinci
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work", Aristotle
These kinds of ideas seem to be present in the era of the Voynich. The notion of doing something for "intellectual pleasure" in this historical period does not seem strange at all.
That the author of the Voynich might have written a scientific text out of pleasure seems perfectly reasonable to me. It could be the same motivation which lead him/her to devise a code out of intellectual interest. It is certainly possible that there may have been other motivations as well, but to discount this kind of motivation seems unwise to me.
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work", Aristotle
These kinds of ideas seem to be present in the era of the Voynich. The notion of doing something for "intellectual pleasure" in this historical period does not seem strange at all.
That the author of the Voynich might have written a scientific text out of pleasure seems perfectly reasonable to me. It could be the same motivation which lead him/her to devise a code out of intellectual interest. It is certainly possible that there may have been other motivations as well, but to discount this kind of motivation seems unwise to me.