Re: VMs: could it not be a hoax (I would like it not to be it)

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Robert Teague <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For dating from the manuscript itself, I use the
> letter/number
> correspondences
> on f49v and apply them in the Astro section.
> 
> For example, the last word in the text around the
> Moon (lower circle) on
> f68r1
> is 1533.
> 
> f68r2 and r3 depict the same event, and the date of
> 1615 can be found
> in several places on both folios.

I need to be careful how I respond (because I have
used similar arguments myself) but one has to be
very careful with 'evidence' based on interpretation.
You propose a translation of VMs characters to
numbers, but we can't know if it is correct or
not. 

The recent mail from Jacques about Roger Bacon and
CDROMs takes 'ad absurdum' (sorry Jacques) a very
valid argument, which is that one can find
confirmation of any theory by searching for,
and spotting, examples that seem to confirm it.

Without implying any bad intentions from anyone,
one automatically tends to overlook the cases 
that do not confirm the hypothesis and focusses
on the few cases that seem to do. I know I've
done it myself.

Still, keep up the good work - I would be suprised
if our mail archives would not contain some
correct guesses about the meaning of some features
of the VMs, without us knowing it.

Cheers, Rene


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