15-08-2025, 09:40 PM
Hello all,
I would like to know the latest ways on how to decipher the MS. I mean, what are the key points, their order, what should not be left or forgotten...
René Zandbergen says
"Some time in the past, somebody or some group of people sat down and generated the text of the Voynich MS using some method.
This may seem trivial but, in reality, it is fundamental. There may or may not be a decoding method (step 1 above), but there certainly was an encoding or rather text generation method.
Anybody who wants to present a Voynich MS solution should present the method how the text that we see in the MS was generated. The main advantages of this approach are:
this method certainly exists and was really used by someone in the fifteenth century;
this approach works both in the case that the text is meaningful, and in case it is meaningless."
Now, for example, magnesium's Naibbe cipher has been published. A cipher that matches very well with the MS entropy and statistics. So... how should we continue? Is this a start? Should we look for other ciphers?
According to the most expert people here... What should we do? Which direction should we take? Which steps?
Thank you!
I would like to know the latest ways on how to decipher the MS. I mean, what are the key points, their order, what should not be left or forgotten...
René Zandbergen says
"Some time in the past, somebody or some group of people sat down and generated the text of the Voynich MS using some method.
This may seem trivial but, in reality, it is fundamental. There may or may not be a decoding method (step 1 above), but there certainly was an encoding or rather text generation method.
Anybody who wants to present a Voynich MS solution should present the method how the text that we see in the MS was generated. The main advantages of this approach are:
this method certainly exists and was really used by someone in the fifteenth century;
this approach works both in the case that the text is meaningful, and in case it is meaningless."
Now, for example, magnesium's Naibbe cipher has been published. A cipher that matches very well with the MS entropy and statistics. So... how should we continue? Is this a start? Should we look for other ciphers?
According to the most expert people here... What should we do? Which direction should we take? Which steps?
Thank you!