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[Jorge_Stolfi]

The problem with accepting a theory like mine, then, lies in accepting it for all sections of the Voynich. Anyone would say that it makes no sense for the drawings of herbs to be accompanied by astronomical symbols.

Actually that would not be strange at all.  The popular You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (English, ~1650) is organized alphabetically by plant name, but devotes a lot of space in the text to astrological discussions -- his claim being that each plant is somehow related to a planet, and that connection matters a lot:

Here in also shewed,
  ...
  2. What Planet governeth every Herb or Tree (used in
  Physick) that groweth in England.
  3. The Time of gathering all Herbs, both Vulgarly, and
  Astrologically.
  ...

But a bigger problem for that theory is the last section (Starred Parags, Marginal Stars, Recipes).  If the text was just meaningless cover, why put 30 pages of it at the end, without a single figure?

All the best, --stolfi