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

["Dennis S." <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

>At 08:03 21/10/2004 -0700, Dana Scott wrote:
>>Brumbaugh studied and wrote extensively on Plato (e.g. "Plato's Mathematical
>>Imagination." Bloomington, 1954). It seems that he was investigating Plato
>>in Milan.
>>
>>"In looking through the margins and diagrams [of the VMs] in the spring of
>>1972, I had a bit of luck. Some of the symbols were the same as those of an
>>'astrological' diagram which I had seen in Milan added on the back leaf of a
>>Plato manuscript. In the diagram, these designs represented numerals (modern
>>and archaic, 'Arabic' and Arabian), and this suggested, if the Voynich
>>cipher were a remote cousin, that the 'alphabet' of the latter could also be
>>numerical. Now, as it happened, this notion was confirmed by a set of
>>marginal 'doodles' or 'mystifications' on folio 66r." ("The Most Mysterious
>>Manuscript, The Voynich 'Roger Bacon' Cipher Manuscript", edited by Robert
>>S. Brumbaugh, Southern Illinois University Press, 1978, p.116).

   Chemistry joke:

   What's this?

Brum      baugh
 \       /
  \     /
   \   /
    C=C
   /   \
  H     H 





   cis-Brumbaugh!


<barf>
Dennis

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