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[Linda]

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? 

I gave a reason, they wanted the information to be for themselves and/or not accessible to others.

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.

So, mental Crispr, 600 years before its time? That idea is kind of awesome. You know, i have a fantastical pet subtheory about some of the drawings, i think they might have known of the invention of the beetroot through cross pollination. I read somewhere that although the beet plant was used for centuries, generally for the leaves. Selection for roots came about relatively late, about the time of the vms. So i could actually accept that idea to some degree, although i don't think it is what you meant.

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

I have to look up logical fallacies now, i think i see one. Regardless, what have dragons to do with contentless nonsense code that somehow is meant to reflect the idea that stars create plants? I mean, stars do have connections with plants, in some ways. Plants, like us, are all made of stardust. The movement of the stars can be used to log time, during which much can happen in the evolution of plants. Maybe even a bit of the light they throw is involved, certainly so if you include our own sun. But again, i don't think that is what you meant.

Dragons have history, that is why they are part of medieval thought. They are in the herbals we were talking about. You don't have to believe in dragons to copy a dragon from another herbal into your own, whether or not you use it for the same reason. But where is the history behind fantastical imagined drawings of plants (if that is what they even are) combined with meaningless star essence codes?