-JKP- > 19-06-2017, 04:10 AM
ReneZ > 19-06-2017, 04:32 AM
(19-06-2017, 04:10 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The new book is 240 pages (according to Amazon).
davidjackson > 19-06-2017, 05:57 AM
R. Sale > 19-06-2017, 07:55 PM
-JKP- > 19-06-2017, 08:27 PM
Koen G > 20-06-2017, 08:08 AM
(19-06-2017, 04:32 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(Curiously, the Amazon picture of the cover has Rafał's first name wrong as well)
Diane > 20-06-2017, 06:58 PM
ReneZ > 20-06-2017, 08:06 PM
Quote:The Friedmans assumed the Voynich manuscript was the unique creation of a sixteenth century, European and Christian 'author' whom they presumed created the text in cipher. Their only interest in the manuscript lay in the challenge of 'breaking' the written part of the text - to which all the imagery was assumed potentially an aid - but evidently of no independent worth from their point of view.
d'Imperio's booklet is now very badly out of date on many points, including this one. It shows clearly that the Friedman group interpreted 'Jewish' as meaning a written source of some text on magic from which that imagined Christian, European 'renaissance' or 'enlightenment' author had derived his cipher.
Quote:That it shows Jewish or Arab influence, probably in connection with the Kabbala; but also Dutch or Flemish influence in the female faces and figures and some Spanish or anyhow southern qualities. This last impression was strengthened in his mind by the character of the greens and red.
Koen G > 20-06-2017, 08:23 PM
(19-06-2017, 08:27 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I just realized today there's a preview. Unfortunately, I couldn't read it all. The repeated references to Sherwood's plant IDs, and further assumptions based upon those IDs, had me shaking my head and when additional references Sherwood's anagramed plant names occurred (you might remember the reference to the name "garlic" to a plant that doesn't even remotely resemble garlic), I stopped reading.