12-08-2020, 12:32 PM
Do I occasionally come across as a skeptic?
I would just like to point out that in the recent mail of DONJCB there are many numbers.
At least:
8. 18. 19, 46, 47, 69, 71, 79, 83.
One can also look at other sequences and periods in classical and medieval astronomy, and find many more numbers.
Since there are quite a number of illustrations in the Voynich MS in which one can make many counts (number of segments, number of stars), it is clearly unavoidable that there will be some 'matches', simply by chance.
The challenge is to find a statistically significant non-chance correspondence.
I would just like to point out that in the recent mail of DONJCB there are many numbers.
At least:
8. 18. 19, 46, 47, 69, 71, 79, 83.
One can also look at other sequences and periods in classical and medieval astronomy, and find many more numbers.
Since there are quite a number of illustrations in the Voynich MS in which one can make many counts (number of segments, number of stars), it is clearly unavoidable that there will be some 'matches', simply by chance.
The challenge is to find a statistically significant non-chance correspondence.