ReneZ > 12-08-2020, 01:03 PM
bi3mw > 12-08-2020, 01:56 PM
nickpelling > 12-08-2020, 04:26 PM
Mark Knowles > 12-08-2020, 05:36 PM
(12-08-2020, 04:26 PM)nickpelling Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Elegant Enigma should be a 100% precondition, but almost nobody has read it.
voynich.nu is great, particularly about the life of the manuscript post-Sinapius (which has never really interested me). But few recent 'theorists' seem to have read so much as the front page.
The Curse of the Voynich has a whole ton of other stuff (but few people have read it, and I don't expect this to change any time soon).
davidjackson > 12-08-2020, 11:17 PM
Mark Knowles > 13-08-2020, 12:11 AM
(12-08-2020, 11:17 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The Curse is what got me interested in the Voynich (not that I spent money on it, I found it in the Welsh hotel library on a wet Sunday afternoon. Sorry! Should I post you a cheque for the cover price? I feel guilty now that I'm addressing the author!)
Seriously, however:
If I wrote a paper about molecular biology, with no background and reputation in the field, I would never get coverage.
In the Voynich, if I am sufficiently estrambolico, I will become world famous.
Sadly, this is because our media today is forced to publish 24/7 and as such is starved of content. It's more a comment upon the reading public than the idiots who write nonsense about our beloved book.
tavie > 13-08-2020, 01:17 AM
RobGea > 13-08-2020, 01:18 AM
ReneZ > 13-08-2020, 05:35 AM
(13-08-2020, 12:11 AM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think the real truth, unpopular as it is to say to some, but as I often repeat there is nobody who can be said to be clearly an expert on the manuscript. Yes, some people know quite a lot about the manuscript in terms of details such as its history with regards to Emperor Rudolf etc. I say this as there is no one individual who if all their unproven ideas turned out to be wrong would subsequently be regarded as an expert! Anyone who claims that they only present facts is in my opinion being disingenuous as I have seen everybody present their own hypotheses or theories.
There is so little of real substance that is known about the Voynich manuscript
DONJCH > 13-08-2020, 05:47 AM
(12-08-2020, 04:26 PM)nickpelling Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The Curse of the Voynich has a whole ton of other stuff (but few people have read it, and I don't expect this to change any time soon).One more will be reading it soon! There are a few copies available on Amazon where I just placed my order!