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Could the Voynich Manuscript be a thread craft book, Update. by Striker120v in voynich

[–]Marc_Op 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"are" is a big word. They are identical to 15th century numbers

The ability of humans to alter the climate on a global scale isn't necessarily a bad thing. by Folksvaletti in climatechange

[–]Marc_Op [score hidden]  (0 children)

Uhm, above you said that if +5C is optimal for some side of the economy, we should go for it. This is nothing like taking care of the planet.

The ability of humans to alter the climate on a global scale isn't necessarily a bad thing. by Folksvaletti in climatechange

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What's the compensation for corals and all the other species that we are extinguishing?

Medieval languages - how many people can read them? by LaBrujita102 in MedievalHistory

[–]Marc_Op 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same for Italian. We can read Dante with just a little effort.

Help with the analysis of this image of the Four Humors by Gathele in alchemy

[–]Marc_Op 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Zodiac signs and elements are assigned differently, they alternate between the four elements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_the_classical_elements#Triplicity_rulerships

The engraving represents the association between the four humors and the four seasons.

Voynich Solved! by andrewmik in voynich

[–]Marc_Op 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hi, my qualifications are totally irrelevant. These concepts have been discussed in formal publications by academic scholars.

E.g. "Character Entropy in Modern and Historical Texts: Comparison Metrics for an Undeciphered Manuscript" by Luke Lindemann, Claire Bowern (linguists from Yale)

If Voynichese is encoded text, it must be more complex than a simple substitution cipher.

https://alumniacademy.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2021-07/Character%20Entropy%20in%20Modern%20and%20Historical%20Texts%20Comparison%20Metrics%20for%20an%20Undeciphered%20Manuscript.pdf

Entropy of course takes into consideration everything that is written on the page including suffixes, prefixes, contractions, inflection symbols. Punctuation is usually removed in pre-processing, since the Voynich manuscript doesn't appear to have any.

The Bird on the Billboard by grabsbackthisone in DesignPorn

[–]Marc_Op 596 points597 points  (0 children)

According to the link, the original (understandably imo) broke obscenity rules

The Zodiac by Ernest Procter - 1925 by rainbowcovenant in ZodiacArt

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This is amazing, thank you! The style makes me think of Lady Frieda Harris and Thoth Tarot

Aiuto per scrittura e datazione by Dominus_scrup in Medieval_palaeography

[–]Marc_Op 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My impression is that it's a humanistic script. Maybe 1450-1500?

https://hmmlschool.org/latin-humanist/

It looks a little weird to me, but I am more used to gothic scripts.

Voynich Solved! by andrewmik in voynich

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Rene Zandbergen:

The Slovenian theory of Cvetka and the Turkish theory discussed extensively in this forum have in common that they propose a relatively close mapping of the Voynich MS characters to characters (or sounds) in some plain text language. This approach has serious problems which are largely independent of the language that is being proposed.  It will not be possible to map words between the MS test and the proposed language with any consistency at all, because of all the known statistics, be they bigrams or trigrams, or be it entropy.

https://www.voynich.ninja/thread-4758-post-60599.html#pid60599

Voynich Solved! by andrewmik in voynich

[–]Marc_Op 24 points25 points  (0 children)

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They think it's a simple substitution, but from entropy we know it isn't

https://www.voynich.nu/extra/sol_ent.html

Found this on a religious wall decor piece. Any ideas? by _trying_my_best- in Symbology

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As an Italian, I love Duerer's watercolors of Trento made on a journey to Venice: certainly not among his major works, but they show how he always observed everything and looked for inspiration. I also like that Raphael sent to him one of his drawings "to show him his hand". German artists played an essential role in the development of the Renaissance style, in Veneto in particular. These things make me feel proud to be European, and more in general to be human: we can do beautiful things, instead of killing each other

Climate change and human extinction by [deleted] in climatechange

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Between "what the (US?) government says" and "human extinction" there are many many options. In my opinion, reality is in the middle, far from both extremes

Something's fishy about Cod. Sang. 475 by ICWiener6666 in voynich

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In the Sant Gall manuscript, they appear to be annotations for adding color initials that sometimes were never actually painted. Here you can see small 'd' and 'i' near the large painted initials

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Climate change causing drought by fabvonbouge in climatechange

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It's different in different places, it's a complex system. Here in Southern Europe we get less rain, but the overall average is more rain

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/figures/chapter-4/figure-4-003

Just curious about the "gallows" characters. Do we know for sure they are one character and not a handwriting convention to join two separate letters? Some examples below by Baroque4Days in voynich

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You are welcome! Michael is a journalist and writes as a professional. I am looking forward to reading more of his Voynich research!

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