09-11-2025, 03:54 PM
(09-11-2025, 09:50 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(09-11-2025, 01:41 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.To get out of that difficult situation, one can usually decide relatively easily whether for statements or hypothesis there is any evidence or not.Rene, thanks for the reply and for the patience. I read again your timeline on voynich.nu and the article you just linked to. But I still cannot see that there is enough evidence to conclusively exclude the Book Switch Theory. But I have created You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. to discuss it, since it is quite different from Rick's Modern Forgery Theory.
All the best, --stolfi
Hi Jorge: I don't know how the moderators would view the situation, but I for one would not mind at all if your Book Switch Theory were included in this discussion of the Modern Forgery Theory. Although very different ideas, they do overlap a great deal.
And I do like it, and the reasoning you use in it. But one point... which does not counter your theory, it is tangential to it. You wrote,
Quote:If MFT were true, there would be no point in trying to decipher MS408, since its contents would be gibberish or uninteresting.
In contrast, whether BST is true or not, it would make little difference for our research. MS408 would continue to be an intriguing document from the 1400s, and our expectations about its contents would not change.
As I often point out, the vast majority of forged documents actually DO have meaning. Think the forged "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", the "Howard Hughes Will", the "Hitler Diaries", the "Oath of a Freeman", and a great many others. I have a book from 1909 on the "forgeries shelf" of one of my bookcases, titled, "The Autobiography of Shakespeare". Um, no. I also have several others, among them "I, Libertine", and more, and all have meaning.
That point does not affect your overall premise, but I mention it because I do think that, whatever one thinks the Voynich might be... MFT, BST, 1420 Genuine, or some other possible, it still may have meaning, and I don't think we should stop looking for, and even hoping for it.