Re: VMs: Hexadecimal

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 04 Jul 2003 10:34 pm, Jeff wrote:
> In response to GC. Yes that is a twentieth century view but I believe this
> manuscript WAS written in the twentieth century, by George Boole or his
> daughter as a proof of his concepts of the logic of thought and how
> language follows logical rules and can therefore be synthesized.

Faking the vms as a proof of concepts of logic of thought? What for? Writing a 
letter to the Royal Society would be much more persuasive and taken more 
seriously.

Since you joined very recently this list you missed a recent long thread on 
the possibility of Voynich himself writing the vms. This was suggested by 
Gerry Kennedy in the recent BBC/Mentorn tv programme, but I believe that 
Gerry does not think that the conspiracy/Voynich hoax theory holds much water 
anymore. (Note that the tv programme is more than 6 months old.)

Why? Because there are a number of letters (by Marci, Barschius and Kinner) in 
the Carteggio Kircheriano that talk about this coded book and they were kept 
separate from the vms. It is *very* unlikely that Voynich could have had 
access to these at the time of his visit to Mondragone. You can see the 
letters in the net if you subscribe to the Kircher Correspondence project. 
These are now indexed in a searchable database. The correspondence access 
numbers are in the Voynich Timeline in my evmt page and there have been some 
English translations of the letters (in Rene's site and another one I can't 
remember, sorry, but it is all in the mailing list archive).

Cheers,

Gabriel


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