![]() ![]() ![]() This irritates historians, because it generates a swarm of inaccurate and half-baked theories that overtake the legitimate ones. The Voynich Manuscript is digitized, so now anyone with some time and enough curiosity can try to decipher it. Kelley fell to his death from his prison, and perhaps took the truth about the Voynich Manuscript to his grave. Edward Kelley ended up jailed in a tower by Rudolf for failing to create gold through alchemy. John Dee was an astrologer and mystic, so together, they might have created the book and sold it for some quick profit. According to hearsay, Rudolf II might have bought the book from a known con man, Edward Kelley. One that that is considered is that the book might be a hoax or joke. Obviously, no historian or cryptologist takes these types of ideas seriously. Saying that we should “consider all possibilities,” the theorist also muses that the book might be the diary of a stranded alien. Their reasoning? The language doesn’t exist. As is to be expected when anything goes unexplained, some people out there credit aliens. Gibbs’ theory is hardly the most far-out. Is the Voynich manuscript an alien’s diary. Apparently, he didn’t even talk to the library where the original Voynich Manuscript is kept. Historians are annoyed that Gibbs drummed up such enthusiastic headlines when he really just used already-existing research and then a vague idea about abbreviations and a missing index. Experts have agreed for quite a while that based on the illustrations, the book has something to do with health, and the fact that the figures pictured are women indicates specifically gynecology. The other part of Gibbs’ theory – that the book is about health – is probably right, but it’s hardly a new discovery. Gibbs did attempt to translate two paragraphs of the manuscript, where each character represents a Latin word, but others pointed out that the Latin doesn’t even make sense. Basing an argument on a hypothesis with no actual proof isn’t very credible. First of all, the basis of Gibbs’ “Latin abbreviation” theory is that the book must have included an index at some point, which would allow a person to see what the abbreviations stood for. Although they had once been close friends, Manly felt a moral imperative to publicly denounce Newbold’s work in the “interests of scientific truth.” “In my opinion,” he wrote, “the Newbold claims are entirely baseless and should be definitely and absolutely rejected.At first glance, this seems like a plausible theory among dozens, but other researchers were quick to jump in. Newbold’s solution was debunked in 1931 by University of Chicago classicist John Matthews Manly in a journal of medieval studies called Speculum, leaving Newbold posthumously disgraced. In June 1921, the monthly magazine Hearst’s International announced that University of Pennsylvania Professor William Newbold had “come upon the key to the secret cipher of the Manuscript … and the truth of six hundred years ago is coming out!” Newbold surmised that 13th-century English scientist Roger Bacon had written the manuscript with the aid of a microscope and a telescope, centuries before the invention of either instrument. For centuries, the Voynich Manuscript has resisted interpretation, which hasn’t stopped a host of would-be readers from claiming they’ve solved it. ![]()
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