No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

Speaking again of Giovanni Fontana's code, what is obvious is that it is made up of lines and circles. I believe that the substantive thing is this composition, rather than the fact that each glyph represents a letter. The code is symbolic, that is, Fontana uses elements of geometry to highlight the fact that his engineering works belong to the scientific world.

I believe that in the case of the Voynich, a contemporary work with those of Fontana, the authors want to explain a natural phenomenon with a scientific language for them. These are astronomical-astrological symbols arranged in the form of words like a language.

As I said in a previous post, much of the Voynich problem is epistemological.