02-09-2021, 02:48 PM
The problem with the Voynich is that the imagination runs wild and everyone sees what their personal inclinations make them see. Imagination is a runaway horse.
Let's be positivists. What do we see when leafing through the book? Herbs and cosmological diagrams with the sun, the moon and stars, many stars. There is almost nothing else. Everything we put to that is the fruit of our imagination.
The only thing that breaks the scheme are the nude ladies from Quire 13. But only apparently because they are also stars. I am not the first to say it. An authority like Erwin Panofsky said it last century. I think it deserves some thought.
Let's be positivists. What do we see when leafing through the book? Herbs and cosmological diagrams with the sun, the moon and stars, many stars. There is almost nothing else. Everything we put to that is the fruit of our imagination.
The only thing that breaks the scheme are the nude ladies from Quire 13. But only apparently because they are also stars. I am not the first to say it. An authority like Erwin Panofsky said it last century. I think it deserves some thought.