Mark Knowles > 05-11-2019, 10:23 PM
-JKP- > 06-11-2019, 07:41 AM
Mark Knowles > 06-11-2019, 06:40 PM
(06-11-2019, 07:41 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Something I try to keep in mind when I look at medieval drawings is that pattern was very prevalent at the time. Everything was hand-crafted and artisans were often creative.
So, sometimes a row of columns on a building or in a manuscript will be designed so that each column has a different pattern, even though all the columns have the same function.
In the VMS, I tend to assume different patterns might have different meanings (just in case they do), but I am not certain this is true.
-JKP- > 06-11-2019, 07:07 PM
Mark Knowles Wrote:Yes, I am inclined to the view that some of the patterns that we see in the Voynich are just decorations and no more than that. For example, as I may discuss more elsewhere, I think the asterisks * that we see all over the 9 Rosette page, not only in the central rosette, are not stars as has been suggested, but merely decorations
davidjackson > 06-11-2019, 08:06 PM
Mark Knowles > 06-11-2019, 08:56 PM
(06-11-2019, 08:06 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think it's very easy to read our own interpretations into every aspect of the semiotics of the VM.
But sometimes, a squiggle is just a squiggle. It doesn't have to be one great big code
Mark Knowles > 06-11-2019, 09:38 PM
-JKP- > 07-11-2019, 08:29 AM
(06-11-2019, 08:56 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(06-11-2019, 08:06 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think it's very easy to read our own interpretations into every aspect of the semiotics of the VM.
But sometimes, a squiggle is just a squiggle. It doesn't have to be one great big code
I absolutely agree with that. As an example, that is why, although I think Nick Pelling does an great job overall, in his book he argues that the slight variations in the lengths of the tails of certain Voynich glyphs constitutes part of a complex number system. ...
Davidsch > 08-11-2019, 06:17 PM