14-07-2026, 04:35 PM
I believe it is a mistake to attribute a 15th-century European work to a book from the ancient Jewish tradition. Setting aside theological aspects—which are absent from the Voynich manuscript—the Book of Enoch bases its cosmology on the doctrine of a flat Earth.
Any educated man or woman in 15th-century Europe knew that the Earth was a sphere. By then, the works of Aristotle and Ptolemy had been part of university learning for more than two centuries. Even a Doctor of the Church like Saint Thomas Aquinas took the sphericity of the Earth for granted. What we see in the Rosettes foldout are the spheres of the Greek tradition, with the sphere of the fixed stars at the center.
As I previously mentioned, the author sought to suggest the Earth's sphericity through a metaphorical device—such as those high walls and the houses clinging to the cliffs.
Any educated man or woman in 15th-century Europe knew that the Earth was a sphere. By then, the works of Aristotle and Ptolemy had been part of university learning for more than two centuries. Even a Doctor of the Church like Saint Thomas Aquinas took the sphericity of the Earth for granted. What we see in the Rosettes foldout are the spheres of the Greek tradition, with the sphere of the fixed stars at the center.
As I previously mentioned, the author sought to suggest the Earth's sphericity through a metaphorical device—such as those high walls and the houses clinging to the cliffs.