RE: Unraveling the Voynich Codex
-JKP- > 11-09-2018, 09:08 AM
Helmut, I can't copy the whole article, but much of it is just background on the VMS.
There is a picture of Flaherty at the top and in the middle it says this:
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Jules Janick, professor of horticulture at Purdue University, and Arthur O. Tucker, emeritus herbarium director at Delaware State University, collaborated to put the puzzle pieces together and discover the origin of the book once and for all.
Elizabeth A. Flaherty, a Purdue professor of wildlife ecology and habitat management, and Fernando Moreira, a Canadian linguist, joined Janick and Tucker to contribute their research to create “Unraveling the Voynich Codex,” a book that was recently released by Springer Nature.
The authors were able to identify much of the flora and fauna depicted in the manuscript as native to the New World, including sixty types of plants and twelve species of animals. The book’s combination of these particular species and the use of vellum (the type of parchment on which the text was printed) suggests that the manuscript is younger than originally supposed.
“Simply put, there is no way a manuscript written on vellum that contains a sunflower and an armadillo could have been written before 1492,” Janick said in an interview with Purdue News.
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