8/31/2023 0 Comments Voynich manuscript solved stack![]() ![]() Some of the spellings in the margins lead to south-west France instead. The handwriting is "smooth unhesitating" from a right-handed person and the style has been described as " reminiscent of the Italian Quattrocento style" from around 1400-1500. So what do we actually known about this mysterious stack of parchment with supposedly either indecipherable or nonsense (or maybe both!) writings and illustrations? Well, in 2009, the vellum the parchment is made out of was radiocarbon-dated to between 14 with 95% accuracy but there's no way to prove that the actual writing happened around the same tim e. The manuscript is 225 pages long and currently housed at Yale University and you can view it entirely online. ![]() He was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, teacher, occultist, alchemist, and court advisor and astrologer to Elizabeth I. John Dee was a fascinatingly weird guy and I will definitely be covering him in the future. My favorite theory - it's the language of angels linked to John Dee's Book of Enoch, with illustrations of unknown plants perhaps being species found in the Garden of Eden Other theories on the Voynich manuscript have claimed it to be:Ī guide to viewing the galaxies using telescopes (again, Roger Bacon)Ī nonsense stage prop made by Francis Bacon (the father of empiricism) " Bacon discovered the importance of empirical testing when the results he obtained were different from those that would have been predicted by Aristotle." And his linguistic work was part of later work on the theory of universal grammar, essentially saying that if children are raised in a normal atmosphere, they will develop language around certain rules - understanding nouns vs verbs, understanding function words from content words, etc) He lived in England in the early 13th century as a Franciscan friar and English professor, and a few hundred years after his death, was considered to be a wizard. Interestingly, Roger Bacon has his own fascinating life story and body of work. The words on it has the makings of a complete natural language and a complicated cipher, "the letter-shapes tantalizingly similar to known shorthand symbols."Ĭodebreakers and researchers have claimed that the language is actually "seventh-century Welsh/Old Cornish an early German language the Manchu language of the Qing dynasty of China (1636-1911) and Hebrew enciphered by Roger Bacon, describing alien technology of the future for generating DNA with sound". The language is indecipherable and the illustrations range from botanical to anatomical, from artistic to almost lewd. The facility, in need of funds, was discreetly selling some of its holdings."Įven at first glance, it's clear the manuscript is strange. "Voynich acquired the famous Voynich manuscript from the Jesuits at the Villa Mondragone. (Villa Mondragone is now the congress and event center for the Tor Vergata University.) Voynich was digging around in manuscripts in the Villa Mondragone in Italy. What became known as the Voynich Manuscript was found in 1912 by a Polish rare book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich. ![]()
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