Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Since we can't yet read the lables or the circular texts on the Zodiac charts, any argument for their being meant to be read or written clockwise (or not) would be speculative.

The shape of the paragraphs and other details (like the spacing at the end of lines) show that Voynichese was definitely written from left to right.   But, agreed, that does not imply that the items in a Zodiac diagram should be taken in clockwise order.

We can argue about secondary incidentals for another 600s years, but it makes more sense to focus first on essentials and those incidentals that may have essential significance.

I agree with that, too, but in a different sense.  Far too much time has been wasted analyzing details of the drawings that are clearly decorative -- or, worse, additions by late owners, like the colors and certain "enhancements" by BEEEPers.  

Again: in the Zodiac diagrams, specifically, I believe that the significant contents is only the text rings, the labels, and the approximate correspondence to Western zodiac signs.  Which  seems to be the case also for most astrological diagrams in other Western manuscripts.

All the best, --stolfi