11-07-2022, 11:50 AM
I would like to talk about the enormous importance of an instrument of knowledge that we all have. I mean common sense. In the study of the Voynich I believe that common sense has a great value.
Even if I know absolutely nothing, if I come across a book in which, above all, I see rare herbs and astronomical and cosmological diagrams, my common sense tells me that both things must be related. As I see that there are parts of the plants in another section next to some luxurious containers, I say to myself: of course these are medicinal herbs. A quick search on the Internet confirms that for medieval thought these medicinal virtues came from celestial influences.
In addition to the images I see a script with strange glyphs. It is not any known alphabet. It could be an unknown language or a cipher, but my common sense tells me that despite more than a century of research by highly qualified people nothing has been found. So, my common sense tells me again: what if it is something else, something that made sense to whoever did it?
Even if I know absolutely nothing, if I come across a book in which, above all, I see rare herbs and astronomical and cosmological diagrams, my common sense tells me that both things must be related. As I see that there are parts of the plants in another section next to some luxurious containers, I say to myself: of course these are medicinal herbs. A quick search on the Internet confirms that for medieval thought these medicinal virtues came from celestial influences.
In addition to the images I see a script with strange glyphs. It is not any known alphabet. It could be an unknown language or a cipher, but my common sense tells me that despite more than a century of research by highly qualified people nothing has been found. So, my common sense tells me again: what if it is something else, something that made sense to whoever did it?