Re: VMs: Brumbaugh / 1972 / Milan / numbers...?

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello John, Nick,

I think you're both right :-)

Worth checking up but it is not very likely to 
be as much the breakthrough as Brumbaugh
suggests. After all, Brumbaugh did not come up
with a credible solution to the VMs, and the 
reference seems to have been lost.
It would have to be in his book. Nick, do you
have a copy?

Cheers, Rene


--- Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> >On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Nick Pelling wrote:
> > > However, their page 129 might have one thing
> worth pursuing: that
> > > "Brumbaugh's first and most important
> breakthrough was in the spring of
> > > 1972, when he noticed that some of the
> Voynichese symbols were similar to
> > > others [...] on the back of another old
> manuscript" in Milan, where they
> > > represented numbers in an astrological diagram.
> Does anyone know what the
> > > reference for that other MS is?
> 
> At 17:56 20/10/2004 -0600, John E Koontz replied:
> >Worth pursuing, but a fair number of Voynichese
> characters look like
> >something *somewhere*, often numerals or
> abbreviatory notae.  Plausible,
> >but not very helpful explanations would be that
> there are only so many
> >simple shapes one can easily make with a quill, or,
> again, that certain
> >canonical shapes appeal to human minds.
> 
> Perhaps it would be more pragmatic to retain an open
> mind as to the 
> relevance of this other MS? Until such time as we
> can see ourselves what 
> Brumbaugh was so inspired by in 1972, the jury
> should remain out, surely?
> 
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 
> 
> 
>
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