(04-04-2024, 01:35 PM)pjburkshire wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(04-04-2024, 01:12 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Lisa Fagin Davis is a palaeographer, so not necessarily the best person to site regarding the statistical properties of the Voynich text. I suggest on reading up about the statistical properties of Voynichese and you will see the difficulties.
I'm not here for the statistics. I'm here because of the illustrations.
- The nymphs are not bathing women.
- The star-images are not stars up in the night sky.
That is why I am here. If you want to chase after a non-existent cipher solution then go for it. It is your time to waste. Have fun. I've played with numbers enough to know:
Q: How many statisticians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: How many do you want it to be?
But no matter what statistics you find or invent, numbers will not change the illustrations.
Lol. It is good to see someone here who is sceptical of statistics. Healthy.
I agree that it is good to start with the illustrations. Treat the ms. as a Mutus Liber, a silent book. Try to come to an understanding of the illustrations *before* turning to the text and the maze of statistics.
To my eye, from the map and other features, the ms. concerns a mountainous landscape. (There is zero to indicate a maritime text.)
We can tell a lot from the illustrations. The illustrator could handle circles and technical diagrams and cartography but had no skill at depicting human anatomy, for instance, which must tell us something about his background.
