15-10-2024, 12:39 PM
The indications that the VM is a genuine document are overwhelming. As ReneZ says, it is beyond all reasonable doubt. However, there will always be people who doubt it. The world is like that and we have to accept it.
It reminds me of the case of the man on the Moon. Incredibly, there are still millions of people who think this is a falsehood, even in the Western technological world. No reasoning is valid to convince someone who thinks this way. Nor that space rocket technology was available 40 years before the first arrival on the Moon in 1969, nor that the US sent expeditions up to six times, nor even that the Soviets themselves, the competitors, recognized the feat.
Ultimately, as in the case of Voynich, everything comes down to a problem of knowledge and understanding. The VM, as I see it, is a problem of understanding. Of trying to penetrate the persuasive force that astrology had on the people of the time. Even a cardinal like Pierre D'Ailly, a contemporary of the VM, believed that the main historical events were determined by astronomical conjunctions.
It reminds me of the case of the man on the Moon. Incredibly, there are still millions of people who think this is a falsehood, even in the Western technological world. No reasoning is valid to convince someone who thinks this way. Nor that space rocket technology was available 40 years before the first arrival on the Moon in 1969, nor that the US sent expeditions up to six times, nor even that the Soviets themselves, the competitors, recognized the feat.
Ultimately, as in the case of Voynich, everything comes down to a problem of knowledge and understanding. The VM, as I see it, is a problem of understanding. Of trying to penetrate the persuasive force that astrology had on the people of the time. Even a cardinal like Pierre D'Ailly, a contemporary of the VM, believed that the main historical events were determined by astronomical conjunctions.