21-11-2020, 08:00 AM
(21-11-2020, 07:25 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Probably because common 15th century cipher methods are unlikely candidates for the VM. At least, something like simple substitution alone would not help us much. Also, after work and family responsibilities, there are only that many hours left in the week to devote to VM research. It seems like cipher hunting is a hobby in and of its own.
Did you encounter any cipher (method or glyph set) that sheds more light on known VM problems?
Cipher methods are more varied than you think. I have more reason than ever to believe that they are closely tied to the Voynich.
Well, I think the number of hours people devote or have devoted to Voynich research is not the problem. The problem is that people spread themselves very thinly. My research into the Voynich is very narrow, but very deep. Most people seem to feel it necessary to propose a theory of every aspect of the Voynich, so their research is very broad and quite shallow. I have focused on very specific areas and am very ignorant of many aspects of the Voynich. If this was a standard collaborative project different individuals would choose to specialise in different areas of Voynich research instead of everybody's research overlapping with everybody else's. It seems many people prefer to be a jack of all trades and master of none. I know this sounds harsh, but this is something about the Voynich research community that has bothered me for some time.
It seems that for those who consider the Voynich to be written in some kind of cipher then this is a very profitable area of research and there certainly seem to be some who claim so.