29-08-2025, 09:33 AM
Thank you very much, @magnesium
This is exactly the kind of point I was trying to make. For me there does seem to be a correlation, but I should add that I have only been looking into the Voynich Manuscript for about four days now.
What brought me here is simply that I have the “capacity” (or maybe the habit) of seeing patterns, and when I stumbled upon the manuscript I couldn’t resist trying to “decode” it, because those repeated shapes in the words looked like they might reflect an underlying structure. My approach was to check whether a mathematical conversion could highlight this order.
Your reference to Schinner (2007) is very helpful, because it places this kind of attempt in the context of earlier work — and that was exactly what I was hoping to learn from the discussion.
Best
Simona
This is exactly the kind of point I was trying to make. For me there does seem to be a correlation, but I should add that I have only been looking into the Voynich Manuscript for about four days now.
What brought me here is simply that I have the “capacity” (or maybe the habit) of seeing patterns, and when I stumbled upon the manuscript I couldn’t resist trying to “decode” it, because those repeated shapes in the words looked like they might reflect an underlying structure. My approach was to check whether a mathematical conversion could highlight this order.
Your reference to Schinner (2007) is very helpful, because it places this kind of attempt in the context of earlier work — and that was exactly what I was hoping to learn from the discussion.
Best
Simona
