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[Hermes777]

Sorry Hermes777 but I don't share your theory. Language of the Nymphs, Ladin people, Nicholas of Cusa...They look like ingredients from a medieval mystery novel.

With the Voynich there is a risk of making literature, fiction, and it is a shame because I think it is a medieval science book whose precious teaching may be lost.

I entirely understand your reluctance, Antonio  , but the very modern distinction between “science’ and “fiction” is anachronistic. Our manuscript comes from a world in which the mythic and the mythopoeic (and "magical") readily overlap with what we think of as “science”. This is a milieu in which it was literally believed the functions of the human body were governed by nymphs and sprites. We see this move from the folk level to a developed (urban) system in the alchemical medicine of the Paracelsean tradition. (I regard the Voynich ms. as “proto-Paracelsean”.)

In order to understand the Voynich ms. we must penetrate into that mode of thinking. It is an epistemological problem. There is a mode of thinking that is outside of our customary logos/muthos polarity. We find it in such rhetorical devices as prosopopoeia (which is relevant here.)

I think it has been an erroneous assumption throughout its entire known history that the Voynich is a valuable work of proto-science. It is routinely, and wrongly, placed in the progressive science narrative. (Therefore, it must be by someone from our Big Book of Science Heroes, Roger Bacon, Leonardo et al.) That has been a mistaken path from the beginning.

I doubt it contains anything useful to modern science. Rather, I think the view of nature and cosmology presented in the work foreshadows – and should be of great interest to – an alternative stream of science (deemed psuedoscience by some) that matures in Germany especially as the Paracelsean tradition, the Goethean sciences and then, more recently, in such things as Anthroposophical medicine. Romantic vitalism. It belongs in that stream of cosmological thought. (Properly considered, it ought to be a work of interest to contemporary ecological philosophy, perhaps.) 

That’s my approach, anyway. It is where I arrive when I place the work among traditional (premodern) cosmologies - which is my area of study and expertise. I’m happy when it overlaps with the research of others such as your astro-coordinates proposal. Onwards!