09-04-2021, 05:04 PM
The answer to this question depends on whether you consider the VM genuine and if you have any idea what it means. Since I believe it is authentic and I have some idea of what it is, for me it is a book of great importance, a bibliographic treasure increased by the fact that no similar work has survived.
In the Voynich, a medieval science book, we see one of the most peculiar features of this science: the union of the macrocosm and the microcosm. We see that strange mix for us of logic and natural magic. It is the stars that govern the things of this world, hence that fusion of astrology and medicine that we see so well represented in the images of the zodiac man.
There is no zodiac man in the VM but we do see the power of the stars to create rare, strange and never seen plants, possessing mysterious healing powers.
Modern science, which begins in the seventeenth century, swept all this away. Medieval science became somewhat suspicious and dark. A book like Voynich helps us to recover that state of human knowledge, of European culture.
In the Voynich, a medieval science book, we see one of the most peculiar features of this science: the union of the macrocosm and the microcosm. We see that strange mix for us of logic and natural magic. It is the stars that govern the things of this world, hence that fusion of astrology and medicine that we see so well represented in the images of the zodiac man.
There is no zodiac man in the VM but we do see the power of the stars to create rare, strange and never seen plants, possessing mysterious healing powers.
Modern science, which begins in the seventeenth century, swept all this away. Medieval science became somewhat suspicious and dark. A book like Voynich helps us to recover that state of human knowledge, of European culture.