Yo yo yo (90 90 90) Emma! Congrats on the article! It was well-expressed so that even someone like myself could understand it! I had just embarked on something similar for one page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that I believe illustrates the Ovidian tale of Hermaphroditus. The nature of the likely alchemical tale highlights the rebis, the “two things”, usually conflicting substances, in one form, that constitutes the philosopher’s stone.
After reading as much about the VMS text as possible, and limitations on line and word endings, I wondered if the authors might have continued the alchemical pattern by combining the last letter of one word with the first letter of the next. Thus the spaces between would contain a binary of 2 characters. From there, I wondered if a new “alphabet” could be derived, one more amenable to decryption, perhaps even simple substitution.
I decided to try it on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. because I would quite possibly have some key words, either from Ovid or from alchemy. It didn’t take me long, however, to realize this was a tedious process, and very likely someone had already done it! So I asked Rene, who graciously directed me to your article.
Which brings me to my question:did you and Marco P ever consider whether the new dataset you derived might be amenable to decryption and did you give it a try?
After reading as much about the VMS text as possible, and limitations on line and word endings, I wondered if the authors might have continued the alchemical pattern by combining the last letter of one word with the first letter of the next. Thus the spaces between would contain a binary of 2 characters. From there, I wondered if a new “alphabet” could be derived, one more amenable to decryption, perhaps even simple substitution.
I decided to try it on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. because I would quite possibly have some key words, either from Ovid or from alchemy. It didn’t take me long, however, to realize this was a tedious process, and very likely someone had already done it! So I asked Rene, who graciously directed me to your article.
Which brings me to my question:did you and Marco P ever consider whether the new dataset you derived might be amenable to decryption and did you give it a try?