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One of the strangest mysteries of the 20th century was the discovery of the so-called Voynich manuscript, which is named after a rare book dealer who acquired the ancient volume in 1912.
Today, the Voynich manuscript is stored in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University as item “MS 408.” But what makes this book so tantalizing and interesting is that even though its origin can be traced back to the 17th century Jesuits, the language and illustrations of plant life illustrated so magnificently in it are to this day unknown and undecipherable.
Was Mysterious 17the Century Book Written by Angels or Extraterrestrials? - Last Reporter (http://lastreporter.com/2011/01/was-mysterious-17the-century-book-written-by-angels-or-extraterrestrials/ - broken link)
One of the strangest mysteries of the 20th century was the discovery of the so-called Voynich manuscript, which is named after a rare book dealer who acquired the ancient volume in 1912.
Today, the Voynich manuscript is stored in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University as item “MS 408.” But what makes this book so tantalizing and interesting is that even though its origin can be traced back to the 17th century Jesuits, the language and illustrations of plant life illustrated so magnificently in it are to this day unknown and undecipherable.
Was Mysterious 17the Century Book Written by Angels or Extraterrestrials? - Last Reporter (http://lastreporter.com/2011/01/was-mysterious-17the-century-book-written-by-angels-or-extraterrestrials/ - broken link)
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In 2009, University of Arizona researchers performed C14 dating on the manuscript's vellum, which they assert (with 95% confidence) was made between 1404 and 1438
In addition, the McCrone Research Institute in Chicago found that much of the ink was added not long afterwards, confirming that the manuscript is indeed an authentic medieval document
A quill pen was used for the text and figure outlines, and colored paint was applied (somewhat crudely) to the figures
The text was clearly written from left to right, with a slightly ragged right margin. Longer sections are broken into paragraphs, sometimes with star- or flower-like "bullets" in the left margin...
Statistical analysis of the text reveals patterns similar to those of natural languages. For instance, the word entropy (about 10 bits per word) is similar to that of English or Latin texts....
There are only a few words in the manuscript written in a seemingly Latin script. On the last page, there are four lines of writing that are written in (rather distorted) Latin letters, except for two words in the main script. The lettering resembles European alphabets of the late 14th and 15th centuries, but the words do not seem to make sense in any language...
Contains circular diagrams, some of them with suns, moons, and stars, suggestive of astronomy or astrology. One series of 12 diagrams depicts conventional symbols for the zodiacal constellations (two fish for Pisces, a bull for Taurus, a hunter with crossbow for Sagittarius, etc.)...
The basins and tubes in the "biological" section may seem to indicate a connection to alchemy, which would also be relevant if the book contained instructions on the preparation of medical compound...
Thus the origins seem to be a medieval who wrote in an unknown or coded script resembling european script and using a pen and ink and vellum of the time. The 'crude' application of pigment seems rather the work of a medieval man than angels or aliens.
The astonomy indicates an -earth - based viewpoint and earth constellations would have no point for divine or aliens beings.
The suggestion of alchemy - a dangeous study up to the 17th century when it became forgotten as a superstition replaced by the facts of chemistry - might explain why it is written in some undecipherable script.
This is a puzzling and elaborate piece of work, but I think we can put angels or Alien visitors out of our heads.
Angels or aliens? Well, I don't believe in one of them, so it must be the other.
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