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Voynich Manuscript
Named the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it in 1912, the Voynich Manuscript is a detailed 240-page book written in a language or script that is unknown. Its pages are also filled with colorful drawings of strange diagrams, odd events and plants that do not seem to any known species, adding to the intrigue of the document and the difficulty of deciphering it. The original author of the manuscript unknown, but carbon dating has revealed that its pages were made sometime 1404 and 1438. It has been called “the world’s most mysterious manuscript.”
Theories abound about the origin and nature of the manuscript. Some believe it was to be a pharmacological encyclopaedia, to address topics in medieval or early modern medicine. Many of the pictures of herbs and plants that it may have been some kind of textbook for an alchemist. The fact that many diagrams appear to be of astronomical origin, with the unidentifiable biological drawings, has even some fanciful theorists to propose that the book may have an alien origin.
One thing most theorists agree on is that the book is unlikely to be a hoax, given the of time, money and detail that would have been required to make it.
Voynich Manuscript
Named the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it in 1912, the Voynich Manuscript is a detailed 240-page book written in a language or script that is unknown. Its pages are also filled with colorful drawings of strange diagrams, odd events and plants that do not seem to any known species, adding to the intrigue of the document and the difficulty of deciphering it. The original author of the manuscript unknown, but carbon dating has revealed that its pages were made sometime 1404 and 1438. It has been called “the world’s most mysterious manuscript.”
Theories abound about the origin and nature of the manuscript. Some believe it was to be a pharmacological encyclopaedia, to address topics in medieval or early modern medicine. Many of the pictures of herbs and plants that it may have been some kind of textbook for an alchemist. The fact that many diagrams appear to be of astronomical origin, with the unidentifiable biological drawings, has even some fanciful theorists to propose that the book may have an alien origin.
One thing most theorists agree on is that the book is unlikely to be a hoax, given the of time, money and detail that would have been required to make it.
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