The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[eggyk]

I am not doing that.  I am responding to those who claim that the whole book was encrypted because it is all precious secret knowledge of the Author.  A claim that implies that the Astro+Cosmo+Zodiac sections exist because of the astrological elements in European medical theory.   I am just pointing out that there is absolutely no evidence that the Astro+Cosmo+Zodiac sections have anything to do with Herbal+Pharma+Bio, or vice-versa.

Sorry, but my initial message was clearly a response to this statement:

Why is there no visible connection anywhere with European medicine of the time?

So if you are responding to those who claim the whole book was encrypted for whatever reason, you are not responding to me. I also never claimed to be linking an encrypted manuscript, nor intended the example to be any argument for or against encryption. 

And then my manuscript example was a response to:

Indeed medieval medicine was often connected to astrology. (Culpeper's herbal is big on that connection too.)  But the connection was usually scattered throughout the medical text, where each plant was associated to a planet, etc. 

But that is not at all the case of the VMS.  We cannot read the text, allright; but what about the figures?

My point in linking that was to show that a lack of a link between astrological/herbal/recipe sections is consistent with european manuscripts from the time. And therefore, a lack of a link between the sections is not indicative of a non-european origin. It was also to address that "the connection was usually scattered throughout the medical text", which I don't believe to be true.

But yes, you might say there is still no visible connection with european medicine, but I would say that the structure of the sections in the VMS are quite reminiscent of some european manuscripts, including the one I linked.