(20-04-2024, 03:08 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Unfortunately, in the last post the quotes have been mangled up, and it is no longer possible to understand who wrote what.
I may explain a bit more once things are more clear, but I really don't want to spend a lot of time on this.
Short summary:
1) There is no evidence that the Marci letter is a fake created by Voynich
In fact, there is a lot of evidence that Voynich did not care about this letter for 8 years, that he could barely read it, and that he completely misunderstood its contents in the time frame 1915-1917. All this should have been a 'show' by Voynich ?
2) There is no evidence that Voynich ever saw the Kircher letters
In fact, there is strong evidence that the chances that he ever saw it are negibly small. And he would have had to read quite a lot of it.
So:
- A cool story, based entirely on imagination.
- No evidence.
- Plenty of evidence that Voynich acquired it as a genuine item and was puzzled by it. I have only mentioned a fraction.
It's a good thing that we don't have to worry about getting arrested for a burglary, just because:
- we live nearby so we could have been in the house
- we could have known where a spare key was hidden
Mea culpa -- I haven't figured out how to respond in multiple places in the middle of what I'm replying to while maintaining the indentation. Aaannnndddd...now that I look at the editing ribbon it looks like the cartoon speech bubble button towards the right side is maybe the right way to do it.
(It makes it better, but it's still not quite right...)