(Yesterday, 09:10 PM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I could watch only the last tree talks (SantaColoma, Barabe, Huth), and then only part of the time.
As far as I can tell, Rich presented only what we have already seen in his blog and here. If there was any new observation, I missed it.
True it was mostly a compilation of various points I've covered before, but with less of a "theory-specific" bent... it was more to point out to people that the foundational factors which form the current, most popular image of the Voynich, are all not so settled... and are still open to alternative interpretations
Quote:Barabe presented some excerpts of the McCrone report, and showed some microscope images that are not in it. I didn't hear anything significant that was not in the report. But he stressed that some of the conclusions are more uncertain and baffling than they appear in the report.
Yes Mr. Barabe's talk was very refreshing to me, because "the man himself" basically echoed what I had been saying about that report for over a decade: That it is not "cut and dried", that there are confusing, mysterious elements in it, all of which deserve further analysis and testing.
He also dispelled his original claim (in the 2009 report) that a "brass inkwell" was a possible source of the "unusual copper & zinc". He used words like "not your typical iron gall ink", and that the green he tested was "most mysterious". And so on. Many answers to questions I've put forth for many years, but had not, until now, had answers for.
For one, when I asked if the level of Titanium in the Voynich ink was "trace", or how he would categorize it, he said that in one sample it was "A large amount."
As for the parts of the McCrone report that are not in the official download which you mention, I shook those loose from the Beinecke last summer or fall (after a dozen years of trying!), and posted them at the link below... almost all the charts and "microphotographs". If interested: You are not allowed to view links.
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They are fascinating!
Rich
(Yesterday, 09:20 PM)kckluge Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (Yesterday, 09:08 PM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Unfortunately, I missed the conference. Is there a YouTube recording of it, for example?
I second this -- I very much hope recordings can be made available so those of us who missed the Zoom call will have the chance to view the talks.
Hi, Karl: Elonka got permission to record the entire thing, and only one participant... a Mr. Huth... declined. She said that she would be processing and posting the recording at some future date, and let everyone know.
I'm sure someone will post on the Ninja forums, but if no one gets around to it, I will.
Rich