12-04-2024, 07:13 PM
(12-04-2024, 06:54 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(12-04-2024, 06:16 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think ideally we would have a list of genuine specialists in fields related to Voynich research that we could consult. These could be specialists in the history of astrology or the history of herbal manuscripts and other fields(I am open to suggestions).
Do consider the possibility that any specialist we list will also become a target for all theorists who see the list, each with a different theory and each more convinced than the last. So it might become a "list of people we'd like to turn away from Voynich research".
Well, that is always a risk. But if getting involved in questions related to Voynich research makes them a target then that means we should never make use of specialist opinion. At the moment this hardly seems a problem as from my experience few researchers try to seek out and consult specialists. Especially as so far, if we take Rich's list, some peoples' presumed experts like Newbold seem to have no qualifications as such when it comes to dating the manuscript. I think there is a distinction between famous/well known researchers and experts.