Saturday, 19 May 2012

The Voynich Manuscript.

The Voynich Manuscript, named after a book dealer who bought it in 1912, Wilfrid Voynich. It was a mysterious manuscript which is believed to be either ingenious hoax or unbreakable cipher.
Wilfrid believed that the manuscript possibly was written back in the 13th century. It was written with an unknown script which until now, many experts still trying to break it.
No one really knows the origin of this manuscript, but, experts believed that it was European.

The manuscript contains a lot of illustrations, which eventually divided it to six sections; Herbal, Astronomical, Biological, Cosmological, Pharmaceutical, and Recipes.
  
Some Facts

•The drawing of plants in the herbal section are unidentified.
•There were some drawings of tiny women which strongly represents body organs in the Biology section Circular diagrams that some of it contains suns, moons, and stars. There were also symbols that fit the        zodiacal constellations.
•More circular diagrams in the cosmological section and  there were also foldouts. One of it looks like a map or diagram, with nine island or rosettes connected with causeways, and contains castles or volcanoes. 
•There were many labelled drawings of parts of plants in the pharmaceutical.
• Short paragraphs, marked in points of flowers or stars.
•It was written from left to right, without punctuation,  and no indications of any errors or corrections made in the manuscript.
• Whoever wrote this, sure is very fluent in this language. It sounds impossible to be either a cipher or a hoax, with the very smooth and peaceful writing.  It’s very natural.
• The language follow some sort of law, like, certain characters must appear in each word , some characters never follow others, and some may be doubled or tripled, but else may not.

The writing in the Voynich Manuscript. [From the Biology section]
 
if you somehow gain interest on reading more, this are the sources.
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