![]() ![]() Since it came to light over 100 years ago, many have tried and failed to decode the text – from US Army cryptographers to ordinary citizens postulating theories in the deepest corners of Reddit. And nobody knows what any of it means.įrayed, browned and in fragile condition, the Voynich manuscript currently resides deep in a basement at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library but digitized copies of it are available for free online. Nicholas Gibbs theorized about a lost index that would solve the Voynich manuscript.Naked women in pools of green liquid, strange looking plants, and text written in an unknown alphabet they can all be found on the delicate parchment pages of a mysterious manuscript from the 15th century. I say, the more the merrier, because why should something this intriguing be left only to the academics? This irritates historians, because it generates a swarm of inaccurate and half-baked theories that overtake the legitimate ones. The Voynich Manuscript is digitized, so now anyone with some time and enough curiosity can try to decipher it. Kelley fell to his death from his prison, and perhaps took the truth about the Voynich Manuscript to his grave. Edward Kelley ended up jailed in a tower by Rudolf for failing to create gold through alchemy. John Dee was an astrologer and mystic, so together, they might have created the book and sold it for some quick profit. According to hearsay, Rudolf II might have bought the book from a known con man, Edward Kelley. One that that is considered is that the book might be a hoax or joke. Obviously, no historian or cryptologist takes these types of ideas seriously. Saying that we should “consider all possibilities,” the theorist also muses that the book might be the diary of a stranded alien. Their reasoning? The language doesn’t exist. As is to be expected when anything goes unexplained, some people out there credit aliens. Gibbs’ theory is hardly the most far-out. Is the Voynich manuscript an alien’s diary. Apparently, he didn’t even talk to the library where the original Voynich Manuscript is kept. Historians are annoyed that Gibbs drummed up such enthusiastic headlines when he really just used already-existing research and then a vague idea about abbreviations and a missing index. Experts have agreed for quite a while that based on the illustrations, the book has something to do with health, and the fact that the figures pictured are women indicates specifically gynecology. The other part of Gibbs’ theory – that the book is about health – is probably right, but it’s hardly a new discovery. Gibbs did attempt to translate two paragraphs of the manuscript, where each character represents a Latin word, but others pointed out that the Latin doesn’t even make sense. Basing an argument on a hypothesis with no actual proof isn’t very credible. First of all, the basis of Gibbs’ “Latin abbreviation” theory is that the book must have included an index at some point, which would allow a person to see what the abbreviations stood for. At first glance, this seems like a plausible theory among dozens, but other researchers were quick to jump in. ![]()
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