[Movie] This Famous Medieval Book May Be a Hoax

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Hi Torsten,
it is nice that a video with a high click rate refers to your paper. However, it is still very unlikely that an author would go to such lengths for a hoax in the manner described. I think the argument that it could be an alchemical hoax is, to put it mildly, a very poor one. It is not clear to me which alchemist would ever have bought a manuscript whose content he could do nothing with.

In addition, I consider the creation of such a pseudo-manuscript (with the given scope) to be hardly feasible from a practical point of view. It is not in human nature to create meaningless text on this scale. In the course of continuous writing, one would very probably fall into repetitive patterns. The rare but existing error corrections would also have to be explained.