Re: VMs: Re: Dated At Last?

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What of Porta then? He was very interested in optics. He also had original
ideas on the composition of the natural world. He wrote about ciphers and
even produced work on it. He was already on a black list from the
inquisition. I don't really know whether or not to believe he was
responsible for an early telescope but who knows?

I can't remember the dates that Porta was prevented from working but the
were late 1500s as far as i recall. Judging by the symbols on the ptolomy
universe image these were known at the time. If we look at the Porta table I
posted the link for we also have shapes that look like half gallows. I think
these ideas where more widespread than we think.

jeff

From: "Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx>
Sent: 25 January 2004 20:07


> This does not necessarily point to Brahe being the author - just that the
origin of the VMS is later than some may think.  If Robert is correct (and I
believe that more and more) then the text could not date prior to the late
1500s.
>
> Remember that the church had very much distaste for the way
astronomy/science was heading at this time.  So if someone was going to
study the concepts (maybe even a monk or priest) they might have hidden the
text to keep prying eyes from finding out what they were really looking
at....
>
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> Larry Roux
> Syracuse University
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> >>> jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/25/04 14:39 PM >>>
> I think this is pay dirt the image of the ptolomy universe has an EVA k
> character on it! Also the m character with the line across the last
decender
> is reminiscent of EVA iim. The question here is where these symbols then
> added to a new set or was the full set already in use but in different
> places and then brought together. This seems to rule out Porta in favour
of
> Brahe. The only question I would ask is why would Rudolph be unable to
read
> a document compiled by Brahe? If they were in association what would be
the
> reason for Brahe to hide this information from someone he associated with?
>
> Jeff
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Teague" <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "VMs List" <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 25 January 2004 14:47
> Subject: VMs: Dated At Last?
>
>
> > Please go to http://web.syr.edu/~lroux/, and click on the
> > link that says, "Can the Voynich be limited to no later than
> > the late 1500s?".
> >
> > Opinions solicited.
> >
> > My thanks to Larry, who kindly made room on his website.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > "If you don't care where you are, you're not lost."
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