(02-11-2016, 08:46 PM)david wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Similarities between certain Voynich glyphs and alchemical notation have been noted by many researchers. But this may be a red herring - let's consider this for a minute.
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Which means what?
Well, I'm not going to go further down this path for the minute, as I want people to think about what I've just said, and consider the question: If this is an invented alphabet, what were the influences of the scribe?
IE, where did he get his shapes from?
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We may never know. So far, I've found VMS "4o" in three different contexts (15th century and earlier). I've found horizontal lines across letters in four different contexts. I've found the basic gallows in five different contexts. Since most of the glyphs in the VMS are Latin and Greek letters and abbreviations, and the oddballs are in the minority, there may never be a way to know where they are from (assuming they are not pure inventions) or whether they were inspired by a variety of sources.