20-01-2021, 07:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 20-01-2021, 08:07 AM by Mark Knowles.)
(20-01-2021, 06:31 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.it remains unclear how political events would connect to a work of natural philosophy.
Precisely, it remains unclear and there is a lot about the Voynich that is unclear, so there may well be close connections. It is far more likely that there are close connections to this period than to the period 854 AD to 888 AD.
In the case of the chlorine contents, from what you say, it does not remain clear, but rather it is clear that there is no connection.
It seems to me that the events of the time during which the Voynich manuscript was written could well be very relevant to an understanding of the manuscript. This is not certain, but many things are uncertain when it comes to the manuscript. Cleary if the author was not a hermit living on a small isolated island then I think events in the world around him/her will have had some impact on his/her life.
Please do suggest non-political and non-art/architectural events. A broad sense of the time period I think is useful and this doesn't just mean politics though politics is part of it.
The objective I see is a greater general understanding of the time in which the manuscript was written without the bias of specific Voynich theories. I wish, personally, that I had a greater sense of the history from 1404 and 1438 as I think that relevant. Hopefully for myself and others this thread will move in the direction of that greater sense of the history.
Without planning it, my own separate research has pushed up in some different ways on various historical events such as the Council of Basel in my Rosettes analysis and quite separately the impact of political events of the period on the development of diplomatic ciphers. As my theory did not start from an expectation of a connection to historical events then I imagine other theories could well find themselves linked to historical events.
Also if someone sees no value in this thread there is no expectation that they engage with it as there are plenty of other threads to comment on.