19-10-2023, 08:43 PM
Tiltman thought something similar to Friedman's idea but more complex. His hypothesis was also based on a universal synthetic language but as he himself said the script could be a cumbersome mixture of different kinds of substitution.
Tiltman cited Cave Beck's The Universal Character published shortly before Wilkins's. In Beck's work, 4,000 essential words are replaced by numbers and a set of letters serve to form morphemes and tenses.
The fundamental thing about the ideas of these two great cryptanalysts and Voynich researchers of the 20th century, Friedman and Tiltman, is that they both thought that the VM glyphs, or at least a good part of them, had a semantic value and could be replaced by concepts.
Tiltman cited Cave Beck's The Universal Character published shortly before Wilkins's. In Beck's work, 4,000 essential words are replaced by numbers and a set of letters serve to form morphemes and tenses.
The fundamental thing about the ideas of these two great cryptanalysts and Voynich researchers of the 20th century, Friedman and Tiltman, is that they both thought that the VM glyphs, or at least a good part of them, had a semantic value and could be replaced by concepts.