A new study published in the journal «Plos One», suggests that the manuscript does contain a certain message, and may have been written with the purpose to conceal important information. The main conclusion of the researchers, “the text is written in an artificial language, which has a clear logical structure».
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According to unconfirmed reports radiocarbon dating, the book was written between 1404 and 1438 years.
The book is a volume of 240 pages, which is written by an unknown language, and has lots of illustrations depicting astronomical, biological, cosmological, botanical and pharmaceutical topics was discovered in 1912 by the American Pole Wilfrid M. Voynich. Bibliophile and collector of historical manuscripts from Kaunas (now Lithuania) was the husband of the famous writer Ethel Lilian Voynich, author of the famous novel in the USSR “Gadfly” about Italians revolt against the Austrian invaders).
Multiple studies have shown that an unknown language of the manuscript, now kept in the Library of Rare Books Beyneke Yale University. has similarities with existing languages, and the latest results reinforce the hypothesis that the text does have a meaningful words and messages.
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theoretical physicist Marcelo Montemarro from the University of Manchester, UK, has spent on the analysis of linguistic patterns of the manuscript for many years and am confident that closer to unraveling its mysteries. With computer statistical method for studying patterns of arrangement of words, Dr. Mantemarro and his colleagues found evidence that having some sense of the words are found in clusters of the text where they are needed as part of a written message. More or less, based semantic network shown, those words have a common structural properties – and this is the pattern that is observed in known languages.
According to Dr. Montemarro these patterns suggest that the Voynich manuscript is not a hoax. “Now the manuscript is not so easy to dismiss as meaningless set of words, as it demonstrates a significant linguistic structured,” he says. It is unlikely that these patterns were deliberately included in the text as part of the drawing, such as knowledge of the linguistic structures of the manuscript at the time did not exist.
As for the meaning of the text, it is still unsolved. According to Craig Bauer, author of the book “The Secret History: The history of cryptology,” manuscript may contain some important message. Initially, Dr. Bauer believed Voynich manuscript hoax, but recent findings have forced him to change his mind, and now he and Dr. Montemarro similar in their position: “For the manuscript is really a kind of story that we may never know».
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Meanwhile, skeptics opening Montemurro not persuaded. “Wop said nothing new – says Gordon Rugg, a professor at Keele University (UK). – This similarity of the statistical characteristics, but does not like, in principle, already seen quite a while. ” Rugg says that any text-mystification, obeying the laws of normal language, no problem you can make, without giving it any special meaning. Moreover, he even invented such a text, a sort voynichevskoy “Glock Kuzdra” that once “Steck budlanula bokra and kurdyachit bokrenka».
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Voynich Manuscript was revealed to the public in an age of great scientific fraud – in the first quarter of the 20th century. To date, the great historical falsifications presumably include Phaistos disk piltdaunsky Cherp and some other strange discoveries. Many suspected Voynich himself and that he had fabricated the manuscript. As a trader antique books, he could have the necessary knowledge and skills, and the “lost book” Bacon could have a high cost. Recent studies have discarded this hypothesis. But perhaps this book – a typical 20th century cultural studies play. Not surprisingly, if it turns out that this is supposedly a hoax created by the former revolutionary underground worker, a lover of ciphers and a married man, forced to look to the United States livelihood. However, perhaps the “Voynich Manuscript” was created and the first ever of its owner or to his order: it was George Baresch (Georg Baresch) , an alchemist who lived in Prague in the early XVII century. For alchemists such manuscripts were not such a rarity, it was more of their culturogical game.
Impact on popkult
There are several examples that the Voynich manuscript influenced, at least indirectly, on some samples of popular culture. For example, the document is inspired by Italian architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini in the creation of the book Codex Seraphinianus. This book of 360 pages is a fictional world encyclopedia, written by “unknown language” and contains a surreal, colorful illustrations.
In the work of HP Lovecraft is the book “Necronomicon”. Despite the fact that Lovecraft probably did not know about the Voynich manuscript, Colin Wilson (born Colin Wilson) published in 1969, the story “The Return Loigora”, where the character discovers that the Voynich manuscript – it’s unfinished “Necronomicon”.
modern composer Hanspeter Kyburz (Hanspeter Kyburz) wrote a short piece of music based on the Voynich manuscript, read it as part of the musical score.
In fiction novel by Dan Simmons “Olympus” (2007) is a French scientist Henri Delacour created the first workable model of a time machine, based on the technology bubble Alcubierre, to go back to 1478 and meet the creator of the Voynich manuscript. The experiment gets out of control, and the false vacuum, break out of the cocoon of the power machine begins to destroy everything around.
Drawings and font reminiscent of the Voynich manuscript, can be seen in the movie “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (English Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade).
story «Il Romanzo Di Nostradamus» Evandzhelisti Valerio (Valerio Evangelisti) is the Voynich manuscript as a composition of black magic adepts, from which the famous French astrologer Nostradamus fought all his life.
In the computer game-style quest “Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon” (English Broken Sword III: The Sleeping Dragon) Publisher DreamCatcher text of the Voynich manuscript decrypts the hacker, who then killed neotampliery because the manuscript contains information about places on earth which are “geomantic energy».
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strip «Voynich Manuscript» (translation) webcomic xkcd manuscript is the leadership role-playing game.
Voynich Manuscript plays a key role in the novel “After the Exodus,” Harry Veda. It turns out that manuscript is the key to time travel.
Sources: ancient-origins.net , wikipedia.org and gearmix.ru .
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