20-04-2021, 03:45 PM
I don't usually pay attention to what is published about the VM outside of this forum. I did know about the book by two botanical experts: Unraveling the Voynich Code, where it is said that the manuscript dates from 16th century Mexico and that the plants are related to Aztec medicinal herbs. I remember thinking: what nonsense!
If I say this now it is because I did not know that the authors had received an award from the American Botanical Council.
It's something that I can't explain myself. The people of my generation grew up admiring American scientific potential, believing in the discourse of science that so magnificently represented the United States.
To reward a theory as absurd as that when science by the method of carbon 14 dating has dated the VM in the first half of the 15th century, it is as if now we begin to believe that the Earth is flat. Even more absurd for a Spaniard like me, who knows very well that many plants of Mexico and other parts of America were described and even drawn by Spanish naturalists as early as the 16th century. None have the slightest resemblance to those in the Voynich.
If I say this now it is because I did not know that the authors had received an award from the American Botanical Council.
It's something that I can't explain myself. The people of my generation grew up admiring American scientific potential, believing in the discourse of science that so magnificently represented the United States.
To reward a theory as absurd as that when science by the method of carbon 14 dating has dated the VM in the first half of the 15th century, it is as if now we begin to believe that the Earth is flat. Even more absurd for a Spaniard like me, who knows very well that many plants of Mexico and other parts of America were described and even drawn by Spanish naturalists as early as the 16th century. None have the slightest resemblance to those in the Voynich.