https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09 ... n-decoded/" target="_blank
Since it was found it has confounded hundreds of historians and scientists and researchers with it's strange coded alien writing and weird pictures.
Apparently the book is just shorthand medical Latin from the late 1400s and copied illustrations from other medical treatises we know about. It's actually just a women's health guidebook written in shorthand that was commonly used in medical books in the 15th century.
Voynich manuscript decoded
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Voynich manuscript decoded
i was going to put the ua/asu records here...but i forgot what they were.
i'll just go with fuck asu.
i'll just go with fuck asu.
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Researchers were really confused for quite some time. From 2013: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-22975809" target="_blank
2016: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/201 ... nsibility/" target="_blank
2016: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/201 ... nsibility/" target="_blank
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Get back to me when you all decipher Linear A.
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so....so much for that decoding...
http://mentalfloss.com/article/504349/m ... ont-buy-it" target="_blank
http://mentalfloss.com/article/504349/m ... ont-buy-it" target="_blank
It's long past time to bring this back to the court, let's do it with a small update:
Re: Voynich manuscript decoded
Always good to question science being reported on random websites like arstecnica and mentalfloss...
Whatever happened to Science and Nature?
Whatever happened to Science and Nature?
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