[Article] Voynich Article in The Atlantic

[LisaFaginDavis]

It is of course POSSIBLE that the five different varieties of Voynichese script were all written by the same hand (just about ANYTHING is remotely possible), but it is EXTREMELY unlikely. Part of the discipline of paleography has to do with ductus, that is, the movement of the hand holding the writing implement. The same scribe might write the same character faster or slower or more or less carefully over the course of their lifetime, but generally speaking, the platonic ideal of that character won't change. For example, I've been writing [&] the same way my whole life, but over the course of time even if the character may look different, the series of penstrokes I use, their sequence and direction, will remain consistent.

As for the article in the Atlantic, it is not intended to be a scholarly or academic essay. It is for the general public, so I would not expect there to be anything there that is new to Ninja readers.