26-04-2024, 12:23 PM
(25-04-2024, 10:37 PM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Interesting blog post. I want to add some remarks since the statistics for the Voynich text should be interpreted in the context of what is characteristic for the Voynich text.
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It is therefore a valuable result that the outcome of the experiment described in Renés blogpost confirms the research results we describe in our paper [see Timm & Schinner 2019].
The good thing about these statistics is that they are objective. They can be computed by different people independently, and come out the same. That works as long as we are sure that they have been computed in the same way.
In any case, I have no issue at all with the statistics produced by you (Torsten) and consider them valid and valuable.
There are variations at the lower levels (bifolios inside groups with similar illustrations) and at the higher levels (valid for all folios with similar illustrations). Other variations transcend the illustrations, meaning that they are clearly observable, but are not related to a particular secion of the MS.
There are simply too many to list, and also, many of them are too subtle to use as criterium for anything.
For me, the explanation is open. I also think that there is one single system, which allows for some variation.
But that is a hypothesis for which I do not yet have any evidence.