Re: VMs: How many Rugg tables for the WotW

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The first table could be, say
> 
>     *:no :*    ¦    *:on :e    ¦    *:wou:ld   ¦  
> ha:v  :e    ¦
>    be:lie:ved  ¦    *:in :*    ¦    *:th :e    ¦   
> *:las:t    ¦
>     y:ear:s    ¦    *:of :*    ¦    *:th :e    ¦
> nine:tee:nth  ¦
>   cen:tur:y    ¦    *:th :at   ¦    *:th :is   ¦   
> *:wor:ld   ¦
>     *:was:*    ¦    *:be :ing  ¦   wa:tch:ed   ¦   
> k:een:ly   ¦
>     *:and:*    ¦   cl:ose:ly   ¦    *:by :*   
> ¦intel:lig:ences¦
>    gr:eat:er   ¦    *:th :an   ¦    *:man:'s   ¦   
> *:and:*    ¦
>     *:yet:*    ¦    *:as :*    ¦    *:mor:tal  ¦   
> *:as :*    ¦
>       ...             ...             ...           
>  ...       
>   tem:per:ate  ¦    z:on :es   ¦    *:th :at   ¦   
> *:las:t    ¦
>   
> to be scanned with a trvial grille (all three slots
> on the same row).
> 
> The splitting points above are basically random.
> Obviously they have
> no effect on the first pass; they would be relevant
> only if the same
> table were scanned a second time, with a different
> grille.

Exactly. This point is easily overlooked.
Rugg's method only makes sense if different grilles
are used with the same tables. If not, the whole
method reduces to a trivial situation, where it
does not matter what is the shape of the grille,
whether it has three holes or only one, and how
the VMs words are split up (if at all).
 
>From Rugg's examples it is not clear how frequently
he changes the grilles. I only looked at one
example (a manually generated page of text) which
looked as if it was done with a single grille.

> Thus, in theory, we could verify whether the VMS was
> produced with
> Rugg's grille method by analyzing a stretch
> containing at least two
> scans of the same table, preferably three or more.

Trying to find these stretches would be the key
question. I am as convinced as I ever was that
they aren't there to be found in the Voynich MS.

Cheers, Rene


		
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