19-09-2021, 02:40 PM
Mnemonics plants? With how easy it was to put a name in Latin or in the vulgar language next to each drawing! Why didn't the author do it?
Simply because he neither knew their name nor knew what to say about the plants because he had just created them. But he thought that there could be such or similar medicinal herbs created under heavenly influences. Is it that the stars have no influence on the human body? There are dozens of manuscripts of the time with the zodiac man drawn.
I think there is not enough emphasis on human fantasy. Medieval men believed in the existence of dragons, imaginary animals composed of parts of other animals. Even in the Voynich there is a little dragon
Simply because he neither knew their name nor knew what to say about the plants because he had just created them. But he thought that there could be such or similar medicinal herbs created under heavenly influences. Is it that the stars have no influence on the human body? There are dozens of manuscripts of the time with the zodiac man drawn.
I think there is not enough emphasis on human fantasy. Medieval men believed in the existence of dragons, imaginary animals composed of parts of other animals. Even in the Voynich there is a little dragon

