tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440938.post114982737937359448..comments2024-03-28T07:03:01.419-04:00Comments on The Daily Apple: Apple #176: The Voynich ManuscriptUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440938.post-86302689273408670652013-07-01T11:09:17.391-04:002013-07-01T11:09:17.391-04:00Dig: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F...Dig: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0066344Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440938.post-7571306822992186982008-02-13T21:08:00.000-05:002008-02-13T21:08:00.000-05:00Analysis of the pigments led researchers some time...Analysis of the pigments led researchers some time ago to a best guess of a date of origin. But I couldn't find anyone saying they had conducted a forensic analysis on the document. Probably the folks to own it at Yale wouldn't let you dissolve the paper in some solution for the purposes of accurate dating.<BR/><BR/>For evidence of changes in the original pigmentation, see http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/04-07-15-retouching/<BR/><BR/>I think the key issue for most people, though, is figuring out what it means (cryptology). And Gordon Rugg seems to have hit on what seems to be the currently most-plausible theory: it's a hoax. See http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/rugg.html<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your question!the apple ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03393142025560063997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440938.post-565578976044582522008-02-13T14:05:00.000-05:002008-02-13T14:05:00.000-05:00I wonder what, if any, scientific analysis has bee...I wonder what, if any, scientific analysis has been done on inks, pigments, and page material(s), to accurately date its production and consistency?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9440938.post-1153509164919185192006-07-21T15:12:00.000-04:002006-07-21T15:12:00.000-04:00Wilfrid Voynich married Ethel Boole, daughter of G...Wilfrid Voynich married Ethel Boole, daughter of George Boole, the pioneer of mathematical logic for whom Boolean Algebra is named. As "E.L. Voynich" she wrote a number of books, including "The Gadfly," a sort of romantic-nationalist-democratic swashbuckler whose hero fights for Italian independence against the Austrians. It's nnot well-known in the US but was very popular in the USSR, where a ballet version was created, to music by Shostakovich.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com