08-07-2024, 07:58 PM
Thank you Datagnosis for your information about Agrippa and his occulta philosophia. Although not linked to the VM, Agrippa's ideas about magic and astrology do refer to something that is present in all medieval philosophy and that is relevant to the VM: the hidden forces of nature.
My idea about the Voynich script is simple. It is a set of astronomical-astrological symbols that the authors combine following minimal rules. We see those strange glyphs and they don't tell us anything, but let's try to see it as they would see it. By combining these glyphs, they would see the sun, the moon, stars in different positions on the sphere and on the ecliptic, in different zodiacal signs.
They see images and movement and form what look like words by combining those images using superimposed wheels on which the symbols are inscribed. For them it is like a game, but a game that is nourished by that medieval philosophy to which I alluded before. It is the hidden powers of the stars that create those rare herbs that we see.
My idea about the Voynich script is simple. It is a set of astronomical-astrological symbols that the authors combine following minimal rules. We see those strange glyphs and they don't tell us anything, but let's try to see it as they would see it. By combining these glyphs, they would see the sun, the moon, stars in different positions on the sphere and on the ecliptic, in different zodiacal signs.
They see images and movement and form what look like words by combining those images using superimposed wheels on which the symbols are inscribed. For them it is like a game, but a game that is nourished by that medieval philosophy to which I alluded before. It is the hidden powers of the stars that create those rare herbs that we see.