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The Real Voynich Manuscript
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:29 am
by shrike522
I wondered what you guys would think of this entry on the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
shrike522
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:57 am
by Adrian
No one said anywhere that there are fake Voynich Manuscripts.
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:34 pm
by Aleister
There are lots of pages on the manuscript online. Such as:
http://www.voynich.nu/
I am not familiar with it, but I imagine that there are a lot of old manuscripts floating around.
It does not really make it some secret document.
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:54 pm
by nortonew
Well, its sort of secret in that no one can understand it. The last I had heard about the Voynich, some linguist had done some sort of analysis and declared it was a hoax. They theorized that someone had made it up to sell to some noble who was notoriously easy to dupe with this sort of thing.
However, personally, I wouldn't write if off just because some guy says its fake.
The page that they show on that site is sort of interesting. With the 12 sections around the sun-like figure, it seems likely the 12 words would correspond to months or zodiac symbols.
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:51 am
by Adrian
Yes, it's the earliest illustrated calendar
