{"id":222,"date":"2014-02-17T09:50:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T09:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephenbax.net\/?p=222"},"modified":"2014-02-21T09:54:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T09:54:51","slug":"why-the-voynich-manuscript-is-not-a-hoax-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenbax.net\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Why the Voynich manuscript is not a hoax (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people consider that <\/span>the Vm is a hoax<\/a>, created perhaps by a sort of grille Samsung language<\/a>. I think I’ve answered that comprehensively in my paper, by showing that it can’t possibly be a hoax, as it contains real semantic content \uad11\uace0 \uc601\uc0c1 \ub2e4\uc6b4\ub85c\ub4dc<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0But in any case, why on earth would anyone waste their time on creating a \u00c2\u00a0hoax of this kind? It’s just not credible, is it?<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday I found this nice account from\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>David Kahn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Codebreakers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \uc77c\ubcf8\uc5b4 \ud68c\ud654 \ub2e4\uc6b4\ub85c\ub4dc<\/a>. Although it was written before the hoax mania set in, I still think it is eminently sensible – I can’t argue with any of it. The highlighting is mine:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Is it [the Voynich manuscript], then, just a gigantic hoax, like the Cardiff giant or the Piltdown man or the fossils of Professor Beringer Transfer Korea<\/a>? Nobody involved with it seems to think so\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand this includes those who have been rebuffed by it. The work is too well organized, too extensive, too homogeneous MonsterHunter 3rd<\/a>. Nothing repeats larger than a group of five words, whereas in actual hoaxes, such as the fake hieroglyphic papyri sometimes sold to tourists in Egypt, much longer phrases are repeated SocialPhobia replay download<\/a>. Moreover, the words in the text recur, but in different combinations, just as in ordinary writing. Even if it were a hoax, there seems to be no point to having made it so long \ud788\uc5b4\ub85c \uc2dc\uc988 \ub2e4\uc6b4\ub85c\ub4dc<\/a>. Most critically, the medieval quasi-science that was seeking the philosopher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stone and the elixir of life while the manuscript was being written was too credulous to entertain the concept of a hoax Download the bible<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

David Kahn (The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet) 1996 p871 \uc5d1\uc140 2010 \ud55c\uae00\ud310 \ubb34\ub8cc \ub2e4\uc6b4\ub85c\ub4dc<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Surely Kahn is right? In summary:<\/p>\n

1. the VM is ‘too extensive and homogenous’ to be a hoax. Why would anyone add pages and pages of extra text at the end, completely unnecessarily, to create a hoax \uc1fc\ud551\ubab0 \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ub2e4\uc6b4\ub85c\ub4dc<\/a>?<\/p>\n

2. There is repetition, but not as much as a typical hoaxer would use.<\/p>\n

3. The text shows other patterns which closely resemble real writing.<\/p>\n

4. Again, why make a hoax so long?<\/p>\n

5. No-one at the time would have believed it, so why bother to do it?<\/p>\n

By the way, I’m ignorant of any 15th century manuscript hoaxes of any kind……. does anyone know of any?<\/p>\n

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Some people consider that the Vm is a hoax, created perhaps by a sort of grille Samsung language. I think I’ve answered that comprehensively in my paper, by showing that it can’t possibly be a hoax, as it contains real semantic content \uad11\uace0 \uc601\uc0c1 \ub2e4\uc6b4\ub85c\ub4dc. \u00c2\u00a0But in any case, why on earth would anyone waste … <\/p>\n

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