06-11-2025, 11:34 AM
(06-11-2025, 01:05 AM)Kaybo wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What if the manuscript are just tables of numbers. In a lot of astronomy books of that time we find tables that can predict things in the future. That are mostly numbers, star names, zodiac signs. In that case you would get similar words in every column. That would also explain why you would get word repeats.
You certainly can't rule it out---like all things Voynich, it's good to track your assumptions. But with that in mind, the herbal section is very weird if it is astronomical tables. It looks like a herbal section, not something that would accompany tables of numbers. Now, I am very hard on "looks like" theories and won't slam the door on it being something other than it seems, but I tend to assume the drawings are related to the text in ways that would be obvious if we could understand the text. I will also say the text doesn't have obvious columns, though again, I am open to a demonstration that it has subtle ones if you have the evidence for it.
For what it's worth, some people have tried to get a Roman numeral system to work, as that would explain the rigid ordering of the letters, but no one yet has ever come up with a satisfactory system. The way to prove that idea right, of course, would t be to come up with such a system, and I certainly won't discourage you from going down that path no matter what my intuition is
