VMs: RE: Voynich number sequences

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting.... you hold the book up to the mirror and turn the book upside
down... and here I've been taping the page to my chest and standing on my
head to accomplish this! :-)

BTW, the red symbols on f1r are not Chinese characters, they are western
astrological symbols.  But you are correct in another sense, that f1r is a
special page with carefully chosen symbols.  So is f1v.  By about page 4 the
text starts to flow much better.

GC

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> Behalf Of Jeff
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:43 PM
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> Subject: VMs: Voynich number sequences
>
>
> Looking at page one of the manuscript with the Chinese symbols in red you
> can see embedded number sequences when the page is viewed upside down. The
> number 86868 can clearly be seen. As well as 680, 802, 6020,
> amongst others.
> This almost certainly means that the code if any has a highly numerical
> base. Whether this base merely determines the letter forms or is a
> calculated part of the code is unclear.
>
> Having the page upright and mirroring it vertically we begin to see forms
> like the letter P, G and S beginning the word forms. The gallows
> forms then
> takes on a double L type of appearance.
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't our modern numbering system originate
> in the Middle East from Arabic Languages? Seems to me that when
> the Islamic
> state was being overrun, when their knowledge was being destroyed by the
> invaders, that they might have had the foresight to hide some of this for
> safe keeping.
>
> Not that I mean this is an original Islamic text, but like all
> works born of
> religion they tend to be copied down the generations. After all, the early
> Islamic civilizations had perfected medical techniques which involved the
> removal of cataracts as well as building knowledge in other spheres of
> science.
>
> Some think that if this knowledge had not been lost when it was we would
> have had space travel centuries ago.
>
> Intriguing thought?
>
> I leave these ideas with you. Try the mirroring idea with images of the
> pages in various ways using an image editor and you'll see what I mean.
>
> Happy hunting.
>
>
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