Re: VMs: "El Manuscrito Voynich"

[jean-yves artero <jyartero@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 

Marcelo un saluto and congratulations again; Dana, thanks for the heads up; the

book is available in Spain, for instance, see it at the bookshop Casa del Libro in

Madrid.

 

Jean

DANA SCOTT <dscott520@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Marcelo,

Congratulations on the publication of your new book "El Manuscrito Voynich".
I look forward to reading it.

http://marcelodossantos.blogspot.com

Regards,
Dana Scott




>From: "Marcelo Dos Santos"
>Reply-To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
>To:
>Subject: VMs: Another method different from Cardano Grilles
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:21:43 -0300
>
>Hi,
>I´m Marcelo Dos Santos, from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
>I wrote the article kindly quoted by Dana Scott (tnx, Dana!) and the book
>"El Manuscrito Voynich" ("The Voynich Manuscript"), to be published by Feb
>23rd, 2005 in Madrid by Editorial Aguilar (Spanish only by now, sorry).
>I want to direct the attention of the list members to the excelent work
>(once again, Spa! nish only) "Breve ensayo sobre el Manuscrito Voynich"
>("Brief essay on the Voynich Manuscript"), by the Spanish astronomer
>Francisco A. Violat Bordonau, a member of this list.
>Instead of Cardano Grilles, Violat describes there the use of three
>concentric cardboard circles, inspired by the three circles surrounding the
>Moon´s face as seen on f67r. This cardoard circles carry the prefixes,
>midfixes and suffixes (one kind on each circle). Nailed by the center and
>allowed to spin freely, you can generate large amounts of voynichese words,
>far easier and faster than Cardano Grilles would allow. Violat does not
>assign a name to these circles, so I call them "Violat Circles".
>You can see the whole Violat essay (.pdf) at
>http://personales.ya.com/casanchi/ast/voynich.htm.
>I think it worth to take a look, specially the chapter entitled "Mi
>hipótesis" ("My hipothesis"), where he describes the constru! ction and use
>of
>the Violat Circles.
>He claims he could reproduce, with this simple method, the whole texto on
>f67r, and, adding more circles (up to five) he says he could reconstruct
>the
>whole 40,000 words in the VMs.
>Of course, his theory (as Rugg´s one, to which I subscribe myself) holds
>the
>idea that the VMs is nothing but a superbly clever hoax, but this
>astronomer
>seems to provide an easy, cheap and quick way to make up such a hoax.
>Regards,
>Marcelo Dos Santos
>www.voynich.com.ar
>www.mcds.com.ar
>
>
>
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