Rob2687 Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 (edited) Explanation: The ancient text has no known title, no known author, and is written in no known language: what does it say and why does it have many astronomy illustrations? The mysterious book was once bought by an emperor, forgotten on a library shelf, sold for thousands of dollars, and later donated to Yale. Possibly written in the 15th century, the over 200-page volume is known most recently as the Voynich Manuscript, after its (re-)discoverer in 1912. Pictured above is an illustration from the book that appears to be somehow related to the Sun. The book labels some patches of the sky with unfamiliar constellations. The inability of modern historians of astronomy to understand the origins of these constellations is perhaps dwarfed by the inability of modern code-breakers to understand the book's text. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050122.html Pretty interesting...Haven't people studied and been able to understand atleast some parts of other ancient languages? Why can't they figure out this one? and whats with the mysterious constellations. Probably warped here from another dimension if you ask me :alien: Edited February 11, 2005 by Rob2687 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemania Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 Or maybe its just gibberish ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hupp Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 cool stuff but maybe its just a kids doodle book ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h00nta Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 Bah, out come the cynics, it's obviously from middle earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emel Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 hmm.. thats a dirt board.. see teh starst in teh middle.. thats means that much point you get if your dirt hits there.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keito Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 Bah, out come the cynics, it's obviously from middle earth. 585337795[/snapback] That's the most funny thing I've heard this entire week! Anyways... this is interesting, I want a copy of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skiiper Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 interesting. i have 2 thoughts 1. it means somethings 2. its just some guy in the 15th century that wrote a bunch of gibberish to create a mystery for us people of the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted February 3, 2005 Global Moderator Share Posted February 3, 2005 interesting.... reminds me of the Hypnerotomachia... i say that b/c im reading the book "The Rule of Four" right now which revolves around that book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lav-chan Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Weirdly enough, that page is my favourite image from the manuscript. I have it saved on my hard drive. <_< One of the mysteries about the Voynich thing is how it mixes both Western and Eastern characteristics. For example, it's apparent in the 'sun' drawing that the art is fairly Oriental-looking. There are also diagrams of what appears to be plants (probably herbs) that resemble the kind of stuff the Chinese had been messing with. On the other hand, the writing appears to have European characteristics. It's written in an alphabet (as opposed to ideography like the Chinese or a syllabary like the Japanese), it seems to be written left to right, and the frequency of the letters and the amount of letters per word resemble what would be common in certain Indo-European languages (English, for instance). I haven't met a lot of other people who have found this subject particularly interesting, though, unfortunately. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phedot Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Weirdly enough, that page is my favourite image from the manuscript. I have it saved on my hard drive. <_<One of the mysteries about the Voynich thing is how it mixes both Western and Eastern characteristics. For example, it's apparent in the 'sun' drawing that the art is fairly Oriental-looking. There are also diagrams of what appears to be plants (probably herbs) that resemble the kind of stuff the Chinese had been messing with. On the other hand, the writing appears to have European characteristics. It's written in an alphabet (as opposed to ideography like the Chinese or a syllabary like the Japanese), it seems to be written left to right, and the frequency of the letters and the amount of letters per word resemble what would be common in certain Indo-European languages (English, for instance). I haven't met a lot of other people who have found this subject particularly interesting, though, unfortunately. :/ 585406242[/snapback] So it could be a book written in an oriental language but with Western or Indo-European letters? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lav-chan Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 It could be, but the patterns don't really match Asian-language patterns. Word length, repetition, letter frequency, et cetera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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