Inside the Voynich Network: graph analysis

[Trithemius]

Hey quimqu,

Nice work-- 

I have also done some graph analysis, but slightly different. In my graph, each node is a folio and an edge connects two pages when they share one or more words that appear at least twice in the entire text and are 4 or more characters long. I then did cosine normalization to prevent pages with more words from dominating so that the connections would reflect shared content rather than just... content/word count.



Anyway what I found was that the manuscript seems to cluster into two clear groups. The left is (I think) pretty clearly herbal A, and the right is the balneological section and the final text-only pages. I think from this graph we can infer that the final pages concern themselves with the balneological matters, rather than the herbal or astrological ones.

Nice work!
Yes, you can take a look at my thread about You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. There, it is also clear that the last pages "talk" about balneological, but also about herbal. You can see how.tje automated found topics are.disteibuted.throughout the MS.

Thanks! This looks like interesting work, I'll check it out.