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  Antonio García Jiménez > 6 hours ago

  That there is an intention behind the Voynich Manuscript, a systematic plan, seems obvious simply by looking at the last section of the codex, the so-called recipe section. Why write so many pages without illustrations except for stars if not because there is a preconceived plan?
  
    In this section, if I've counted correctly, there are 312 stars with their corresponding paragraphs. Since two folios that should be in the center of the quire are missing, it's safe to assume that the authors intended to include 360 stars with their paragraphs. That is, 360 stars, as in the zodiacal section where the 30 degrees of each sign are represented by a female figure holding a star. In fact, a majority of the stars in quire 20 have a tail that appears to have detached from the hands of the female figures. There is an evident correspondence between both sections and an affinity in completing the ecliptic circle, regardless of what the chains of symbols mean.
  
     What can be stated from this observation is that astrology plays a fundamental role in the Voynich, and that, as I have mentioned on other occasions, this codex is a herbal, but not a conventional herbal, but an astrological herbal.

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  Jorge_Stolfi > 3 hours ago

  (6 hours ago)Antonio García Jiménez Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In this section, if I've counted correctly, there are 312 stars with their corresponding paragraphs.

  
  The stars do not correspond perfectly with the parags.  (They mostly do, but the starts sometimes are higher or lower by one or two lines, and a couple are missing.  I went through the parag breaks in that section recently, and I will be posting the results soon.)  But the number is basically correct.
  
  

  Quote:Since two folios that should be in the center of the quire are missing, it's safe to assume that the authors intended to include 360 stars with their paragraphs.

  
  That is my estimate too. 
  
  

  Quote:That is, 360 stars, as in the zodiacal section where the 30 degrees of each sign are represented by a female figure holding a star. ... There is an evident correspondence between both sections and an affinity in completing the ecliptic circle, regardless of what the chains of symbols mean.

  
  It is a natural guess.  However, the number "360" was so important, all over the world, that the fact that both sets have 360 items can be just a coincidence.  
  
  I guess that the Sumerian geometers/astronomers divided the circle into 360 degrees because it is almost the number of days in the year; but they picked 360 and not 365 because it is divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,18,20,28,30,36,40,60,120,180... (Did I miss any?) And it meshed well with their base-60 number system. Or maybe it was the other way around.  Dividing a circle into 6 parts is even easier than dividing it into 4 parts; and 360 = 6x60.
  
  I have a theory about the contents of that section, backed by some good evidence; but I am afraid that I am not allowed to mention it here.  
  
  I will only say that it is not a herbal and not about astrology, but a materia medica: a list of medicines and tonics, with the diseases they cure or the benefits they bring.  Most would be plants, but not all.  Drawings were not needed because those remedies would normally be obtained from an apothecary, not by hunting them down in the fields.  The number of recipes may have been originally motivated by astrology, but I believe that astrology is not mentioned in the list itself.  The stars in the margin are just decoration -- fancy "bullets" -- like the nymphs and stars in the Zodiac.
  
  All the best, --stolfi
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