08-07-2021, 07:45 PM
The similarity between the VM script and the code invented by the engineer Giovanni Fontana has been highlighted on several occasions. Fontana and the authors of the Voynich are rigorously contemporary, breathe the same cultural atmosphere.
The fact is that with its code Fontana did not intend to hide anything. He first writes phrases or words in Latin that make it very easy to crack the code. It is speculated that the engineer considered the code a symbolic writing system that conferred particular significance on the contents. It is quite possible that he wanted to emulate magicians and their cryptic language. He could do the same by mechanical instruments.
Why are there no phrases or words in Latin in the VM that help to decipher the script? Perhaps because Latin words are not necessary and it is an iconic system so simple that it had no secrets for those who knew and used it
The fact is that with its code Fontana did not intend to hide anything. He first writes phrases or words in Latin that make it very easy to crack the code. It is speculated that the engineer considered the code a symbolic writing system that conferred particular significance on the contents. It is quite possible that he wanted to emulate magicians and their cryptic language. He could do the same by mechanical instruments.
Why are there no phrases or words in Latin in the VM that help to decipher the script? Perhaps because Latin words are not necessary and it is an iconic system so simple that it had no secrets for those who knew and used it