04-06-2023, 02:40 PM
It has been said that some glyphs in the Voynich script could be numbers. I believe that two of them are numbers, 4 and 8, and I am going to explain why. The shape of the 8 is easily recognizable. Not so that of 4, which is in the form in which it was written in the fifteenth century.
These numbers are in the MV because they correspond to the hours of light and darkness at the solstices, the summer and winter solstices. We are going to see the proof of this in a very common instrument of the time, a volvelle.
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If you look closely at the volvelle you will see that internally there is a circle of points limited by two crosses that mark the solstices. Above and below the points are written the numbers 4,5,6,7 and 8 that run on each side of the crosses in reverse order.
These numbers mark the hours of light and darkness in each month or zodiac sign. The ones that interest us here are 8 and 4. Both numbers are repeated on each side of the cross that marks the summer and winter solstices.
To make it clear: in summer the numbers 8 and 4 are over Geminis and Cancer. 8+8 are 16 and 4+4 are 8. In other words, 16 hours of light and 8 hours of darkness in those months.
These light and dark figures correspond approximately to the latitude of the place where the Voynich was made, a place in northern Italy or Central Europe.
These numbers are in the MV because they correspond to the hours of light and darkness at the solstices, the summer and winter solstices. We are going to see the proof of this in a very common instrument of the time, a volvelle.
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If you look closely at the volvelle you will see that internally there is a circle of points limited by two crosses that mark the solstices. Above and below the points are written the numbers 4,5,6,7 and 8 that run on each side of the crosses in reverse order.
These numbers mark the hours of light and darkness in each month or zodiac sign. The ones that interest us here are 8 and 4. Both numbers are repeated on each side of the cross that marks the summer and winter solstices.
To make it clear: in summer the numbers 8 and 4 are over Geminis and Cancer. 8+8 are 16 and 4+4 are 8. In other words, 16 hours of light and 8 hours of darkness in those months.
These light and dark figures correspond approximately to the latitude of the place where the Voynich was made, a place in northern Italy or Central Europe.