Voynich's anatomy

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I don’t take any of the suggestions made in this thread, drawing parallels between human body parts and VMS illustrations, all that seriously

I don't see any clear anatomical references in the illustrations of any section except Bio/Balneo. In this section, on the other hand, the anatomical refernces are too many and too clear to dismiss as mere "pareidolia".  Many of the drawings clearly were meant to be seen as body organs.

The question is whether the bathing installations and nymphs were meant to be a cover to disguise the anatomical contents, or whether the section is indeed about medicinal baths and the organ drawings are meant to indicate which parts of the body that baths and waters are good for.

Both explanations have their problems.  So maybe it is something else...

All the best, --stolfi

I can see the body organs in the Bio/Balneo when people present them as such (I can really only think of the ovaries and the intestines, and more recently the brain example, are there more that are clearly thought to be body parts?) but it was not the first thing that came to mind, it was only in reading others' takes on them that i could see them as such. I think those things must actually be something else, although I am not sure what that might be. I also don't think it is about balneology, I would expect the drawings to adhere more closely to the drawings in the various versions of De balneis Puteolanis if that were the case, I don't see enough resemblance. It might be true that both of these types of iconography were meant to throw onlookers off the scent and keep things obscured.