RE: VMs: My collected notes

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Marianna Hiltunen" <marianna.hiltunen@xxxxxxxxx>

> I am a physicist and an astronomer, and I took my first look at the Voynich
> Manuscript about six months ago. Since then, it has been my hobby, and
> I thought it could be useful to someone if I put my notes in the web; they
> are at:
> http://www.astro.helsinki.fi/~marianna/notes1.txt
>
> I realize that many of the ideas I have may probably been discovered by
> others, but I just have not found the paper/web page where they have
> been published. Anyway, I thought I'd share my thoughts. I am
> also planning to run some statistical tests when I have time; 
> unfortunately,
> I am currently very busy with my work, so it might take several months.

Welcome to the list Marianna! You have covered a lot of ground in only six
months. The Roman numerals idea and the Arabic roots idea occur to just
about everybody and they simply don't work, but I am pleased to have an ally
on the subject of the internal patterning of the words: I have so often said
that the reason for the redundancy becomes clear if you put gaps between
the characters:

http://mysite.freeserve.com/philipneal_vms/103r.html

But how can you generate something like that from meaningful plaintext?
I have been wondering for years.

Philip Neal

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