Voynich manuscript: the solution?
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Voynich manuscript: the solution?
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Re: Voynich manuscript: the solution?
#2Where's the actual solution? I feel like I'm missing something because what I see is some plausible commentary about it and some interesting discussion of Latin and ligatures but where's the actual decoding of the writing?
Re: Voynich manuscript: the solution?
#3Where's the actual solution? I feel like I'm missing something because what I see is some plausible commentary about it and some interesting discussion of Latin and ligatures but where's the actual decoding of the writing?
The last two paragraphs direct how to decode but no fully decoded text is available.
An exercise left to the reader I suppose.
Re: Voynich manuscript: the solution?
#4Where's the actual solution? I feel like I'm missing something because what I see is some plausible commentary about it and some interesting discussion of Latin and ligatures but where's the actual decoding of the writing?
As I read it, the writing is un-decodable because it's not really "writing" in the conventional sense, it's recipes encoded using single-letter abbreviations, many of which require an index to decipher. No index is present, and the author surmises that it was never completed, or lost.
Re: Voynich manuscript: the solution?
#5Where's the actual solution? I feel like I'm missing something because what I see is some plausible commentary about it and some interesting discussion of Latin and ligatures but where's the actual decoding of the writing?
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Re: Voynich manuscript: the solution?
#6Fascinating, if accurate - and I rather hope it is. If it is, it would make the whole thing a rather instructive example of how siloing knowledge can hide truth; the author's domain knowledge has given him the tools to identify the manuscript, but it's generally been in the domain of conspiracists and 'hidden knowledge of the ancients' types.
It would be good to see a thorough study of it to test the author's hypothesis, of course.
Re: Voynich manuscript: the solution?
#7Rather convenient "solution".
The solution is the heading and index...which are missing.
Author might be right, but that is essentially an un-provable statement and doesn't really amount to a solution. But rather a statement that it can't be solved.
Re: Voynich manuscript: the solution?
#8Where's the actual solution? I feel like I'm missing something because what I see is some plausible commentary about it and some interesting discussion of Latin and ligatures but where's the actual decoding of the writing?
The last two paragraphs direct how to decode but no fully decoded text is available. An exercise left to the reader I suppose.
There is a sample decoding at the top of the article. Looks plausible.
Re: Voynich manuscript: the solution?
#9Where's the actual solution? I feel like I'm missing something because what I see is some plausible commentary about it and some interesting discussion of Latin and ligatures but where's the actual decoding of the writing?
As I read it, the writing is un-decodable because it's not really "writing" in the conventional sense, it's recipes encoded using single-letter abbreviations, many of which require an index to decipher. No index is present, and the author surmises that it was never completed, or lost.
I'm reminded of the work that was done to reverse engineer the Intel ME 11 [1], it was compressed with an unknown Huffman code which the team was nevertheless able to recover somehow. And that was with variable-length words!
[1] http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html
Re: Voynich manuscript: the solution?
#10Where's the actual solution? I feel like I'm missing something because what I see is some plausible commentary about it and some interesting discussion of Latin and ligatures but where's the actual decoding of the writing?
The last two paragraphs direct how to decode but no fully decoded text is available. An exercise left to the reader I suppose.
The image at the top is a decoding of a couple of lines of text.
The decoding yields extremely boring Latin, so I'm not terribly surprised if the investigator decided not to decode the entire document.