13-06-2024, 12:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-06-2024, 03:05 PM by Mark Knowles.)
My own authorship suggestion is falsifiable. Here's one way to falsify it->
Abbot Antonio Barbavara became Abbot in 1428(Some sources say 1426)
The previous Abbot is barely mentioned in the historical record.
Antonio Barbavara had interests which fit with the contents of the Voynich manuscript. He had close family connections to the world of Cryptography.
So it makes very little sense to me that the Abbey would have been drawn in the bottom right hand corner of the rosettes folio prior to 1426.
The Council of Basel was announced in 1430. It makes so much sense in explaining the reason for the "journey" that I claim. That it would be very surprising to me if the rosettes folio was drawn prior to 1430.
I don't know how long vellum was likely to be stored before being used. However more than 5 years seems like a long time.
Therefore if in the future the rosettes folio can be dated by improved carbon dating or other rigourous scientific methods to before 1421 then I would accept that as a falsification of my theory.
This is not the only way it could be falsified, but a pretty certain way. Obviously a successful decipherment that points to a different author or different interpretation of the page would be a falsification. In fact anyway that demonstrates conclusively other authorship would be a falsification. Similarly anyway that demonstrates conclusively that core aspects of my map interpretation are wrong would seem to be a falsification; I exclude minor details being wrong as a falsification(By minor details I mean something like the incorrect identification of a specific tiny building.)
Abbot Antonio Barbavara became Abbot in 1428(Some sources say 1426)
The previous Abbot is barely mentioned in the historical record.
Antonio Barbavara had interests which fit with the contents of the Voynich manuscript. He had close family connections to the world of Cryptography.
So it makes very little sense to me that the Abbey would have been drawn in the bottom right hand corner of the rosettes folio prior to 1426.
The Council of Basel was announced in 1430. It makes so much sense in explaining the reason for the "journey" that I claim. That it would be very surprising to me if the rosettes folio was drawn prior to 1430.
I don't know how long vellum was likely to be stored before being used. However more than 5 years seems like a long time.
Therefore if in the future the rosettes folio can be dated by improved carbon dating or other rigourous scientific methods to before 1421 then I would accept that as a falsification of my theory.
This is not the only way it could be falsified, but a pretty certain way. Obviously a successful decipherment that points to a different author or different interpretation of the page would be a falsification. In fact anyway that demonstrates conclusively other authorship would be a falsification. Similarly anyway that demonstrates conclusively that core aspects of my map interpretation are wrong would seem to be a falsification; I exclude minor details being wrong as a falsification(By minor details I mean something like the incorrect identification of a specific tiny building.)