24-04-2026, 08:23 AM
After Stolfi and ooesordy's personal outbursts and Stefan's disdain for Panofsky, I return to what should matter in this forum: the Voinich investigation.
According to what I read on ReneZ's website, in response to a question from Friedman about what the codex was about, Panofsky replied as follows: So far as can be made out before the manuscript has been decoded, its content would comprise: first, a general cosmological philosophy explaining the medical properties of terrestrial objects, particularly plants, by celestial influences transmitted by astral radiation and those "spirits" which were frequently believed to transmit the occult powers of the stars to the earth; second, a kind of herbal describing the individual plants used for medical and, conceivably, magical purposes; third, a description of such compounds as may be produced by combining individual plants in various ways.
According to what I read on ReneZ's website, in response to a question from Friedman about what the codex was about, Panofsky replied as follows: So far as can be made out before the manuscript has been decoded, its content would comprise: first, a general cosmological philosophy explaining the medical properties of terrestrial objects, particularly plants, by celestial influences transmitted by astral radiation and those "spirits" which were frequently believed to transmit the occult powers of the stars to the earth; second, a kind of herbal describing the individual plants used for medical and, conceivably, magical purposes; third, a description of such compounds as may be produced by combining individual plants in various ways.