Post by Nemesis on May 10, 2002 18:05:39 GMT -5
The story starts in 1912, when Wilfrid Voynich, an American bookstoremanager, bought a box with books from a Jezuite-college in Italy. In this box he found a manuscript, which described something he couldnt read. There are also drawings from herb-like plants, and naked women sitting in the plants.
This manuscript is now held in Yale University. Nobody managed to decrypt the manuscript yet, but it seems to have some connections with the Korean or Chinese language.
They are now busy putting every single 'type' in a computer, and then this computer makes words from them in ASCII code as they appear in these weird letters in the manuscript. An example from a Voynich-manuscript word: SCODG.O8AIIR.4OGOF2CO8.TGPTCG
It's said to be the manuscript was written by Roger Bacon, in 1300 (not the big Roger Bacon who lived arround 1600, but the alchemist Roger Bacon), but no official documents can aknowledge this.
When Voynich took a look at the manuscript, he found a letter in which stood that emperor Rudolf the Second bought the manuscript for 600 golden coins (nowadays approx. 15000 US$). Rudolf the Second died in 1612, so this means the manuscript dates atleast from before 1612. The C-14 dating-method wouldnt give us a preciser date, because from 1200 til 1600 the C14-measure in paper are almost the same.
It's still a mistery who this manuscript made, and what it may tell us....
This manuscript is now held in Yale University. Nobody managed to decrypt the manuscript yet, but it seems to have some connections with the Korean or Chinese language.
They are now busy putting every single 'type' in a computer, and then this computer makes words from them in ASCII code as they appear in these weird letters in the manuscript. An example from a Voynich-manuscript word: SCODG.O8AIIR.4OGOF2CO8.TGPTCG
It's said to be the manuscript was written by Roger Bacon, in 1300 (not the big Roger Bacon who lived arround 1600, but the alchemist Roger Bacon), but no official documents can aknowledge this.
When Voynich took a look at the manuscript, he found a letter in which stood that emperor Rudolf the Second bought the manuscript for 600 golden coins (nowadays approx. 15000 US$). Rudolf the Second died in 1612, so this means the manuscript dates atleast from before 1612. The C-14 dating-method wouldnt give us a preciser date, because from 1200 til 1600 the C14-measure in paper are almost the same.
It's still a mistery who this manuscript made, and what it may tell us....
Whoever wrote that had a lot to say.
