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[Antonio García Jiménez]

Lynn Thorndike, one of the great researchers of the medieval world and the relationships between magic and science, used to say that it is useless to know the historical facts of an era if we do not know the spirit of that era.

For us men and women of the 21st century, it is extraordinarily difficult to understand the era in which the Voynich was made, a time in which empirical knowledge was mixed with the widespread belief in angels and demons hovering everywhere.

I have been studying the VM for a few years now so I know that anyone who says anything about its content without knowing the spirit of the time runs the risk of saying nonsense.

Within the spirit of that time is astrology, the power of the stars. This is what we see in the VM, which is nothing other than an astrological herbarium.