Who has the Voynichese mindset more?

[Mark Knowles]

Completely new things are rare, and inventions often build upon earlier concepts.

This is very much the perspective that some of us researchers hold such as Michelle Lewis and myself.

The Voynich script, which is the most puzzling thing about it, emerged out of a tradition and didn't appear out of the ether the key is uncovering that tradition from which it emerged. I have my own ideas what tradition that was, but there are alternative possible ideas. But I think those who believe it is outside any tradition have, I think, an ahistorical approach.

Personally, I don't think the goal of the authors was to puzzle. I think the Voynich has the greatest parallel to the work of Giovanni Fontana; the important difference is that his system for producing his script was much simpler, owing to much less experience, on Fontana's part, in that area.