17-01-2021, 08:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 17-01-2021, 08:41 AM by davidjackson.)
Mark,
I said scatter gun approach. You can't build up a list of events from a specific time period from Wikipedia and then try to match to the voynich.
If there was anything that obvious the many specialists and informed amateurs would have spotted it by now.
Anyone doing that is just running the risk of confirmational basis - this nymph looks a bit like a pope so must be the anti pope..
(note that I'm not accusing you of this, but I'm just warning of a danger to be avoided)
Anybody who wants to study the Voynich should instead take a holistic approach to the history of the period, trying to understand more about the social, political and economic life of the time across Europe. That gives you a much better insight into the mindset of the possible creators; you can then try to see if they were reflecting momentous events in their work.
I said scatter gun approach. You can't build up a list of events from a specific time period from Wikipedia and then try to match to the voynich.
If there was anything that obvious the many specialists and informed amateurs would have spotted it by now.
Anyone doing that is just running the risk of confirmational basis - this nymph looks a bit like a pope so must be the anti pope..
(note that I'm not accusing you of this, but I'm just warning of a danger to be avoided)
Anybody who wants to study the Voynich should instead take a holistic approach to the history of the period, trying to understand more about the social, political and economic life of the time across Europe. That gives you a much better insight into the mindset of the possible creators; you can then try to see if they were reflecting momentous events in their work.