16-07-2022, 05:42 PM
You and Koen (sorry Koen I didn't understand what you meant) are right that Panofsky changed his mind about the Voynich at several points. Panoksky's views are of great importance because he formulated them 20 years apart. And this is the bottom line for me: his reading of the VM iconography did not change.
I have read his interpretation of female figures as astral spirits in Mary D' Imperio, but René's page also says the same thing in other words. I don't think there is confusion in this. In any case, he never said that there was a biological or balneological section in the VM. Panofksy is not the gospel, but he is someone who knew what he was talking about.
Of course Panofsky never said that there was no text in the script. I say this and it is my theory, but to be able to say it the iconographic interpretation of Panofksy is vital because it puts before the eyes that in the codex there is nothing more than herbs and stars.
I think that throughout these years I have shown how the glyphs respond to astronomical symbols and only to this. As you say, I would like to be more specific and try to make sense of a line or a paragraph, but I haven't been able to do so at the moment. More and more I think that everything is a game with certain rules but very flexible. That's why there seem to be two languages
I have read his interpretation of female figures as astral spirits in Mary D' Imperio, but René's page also says the same thing in other words. I don't think there is confusion in this. In any case, he never said that there was a biological or balneological section in the VM. Panofksy is not the gospel, but he is someone who knew what he was talking about.
Of course Panofsky never said that there was no text in the script. I say this and it is my theory, but to be able to say it the iconographic interpretation of Panofksy is vital because it puts before the eyes that in the codex there is nothing more than herbs and stars.
I think that throughout these years I have shown how the glyphs respond to astronomical symbols and only to this. As you say, I would like to be more specific and try to make sense of a line or a paragraph, but I haven't been able to do so at the moment. More and more I think that everything is a game with certain rules but very flexible. That's why there seem to be two languages

