Maybe it's in a language older than mankind and its deciphering will wake Cthulhu from his dead and dreaming slumber on the floor of the Pacific. As a sf/fantasy reader, the book most resembles a wizard's spell book or an alien explorer's journal. There are some sections that look botanical, some medical, some astronomical, and some featuring naked women. I can see how people would arrive at either interpretation. Is it a scientist's enciphered journal or just meaningless gibberish? The introduction traces the Voynich manuscripts history from its discovery to modern day and hypothesizes its origins. I've been aware of the Voynich Manuscript for about a decade and how often do you get to look at an undecipherable Renaissance era tome? When this popped up on Netgalley, I had to give it a go. This book is divided into three sections: two introductions and the manuscript itself. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066344 (英语).The Voynich Manuscript is a book from the 15th century, written in a language no one can identify, let alone read. Keywords and Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript: An Information-Theoretic Analysis. Probing the Statistical Properties of Unknown Texts: Application to the Voynich Manuscript. Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, College of Physicians of.The Curse of the Voynich: The Secret History of the World's Most Mysterious Manuscript. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World: Did Roger Bacon Write It and Has the Key Been Found?. Solution of the Voynich Manuscript: A Liturgical Manual for the Endura Rite of the Cathari Heresy, the Cult of Isis. The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World. The Voynich Manuscript The Unsolved Riddle of an Extraordinary Book Which Has Defied Interpretation for Centuries. Meade, MD: National Security Agency/Central Security Service. The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma (PDF). The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. The Most Mysterious Manuscript: The Voynich 'Roger Bacon' Cipher Manuscript.
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