People buy into a lot of nonsensical stuff so yeah… we’re buying into it. Essentially, Gibbs rolled together a bunch of already-existing scholarship and did a highly speculative translation, without even consulting the librarians at the institute where the book resides. Many scholars and amateur sleuths had already reached that conclusion, using the same evidence that Gibbs did. The idea that the book is a medical treatise on women’s health, however, might turn out to be correct. Personally I object to his interpretation of abbreviations.” As Harvard’s Houghton Library curator of early modern books John Overholt put it on Twitter, “We’re not buying this Voynich thing, right?” Medievalist Kate Wiles, an editor at History Today, replied, “I’ve yet to see a medievalist who does. Well it seems that Gibbs didn’t bother to check with anybody who has spent time with the manuscript about the claims he puts forth in his article… so that’s fun!Īs soon as Gibbs’ article hit the Internet, news about it spread rapidly through social media ( we covered it at Ars too), arousing the skepticism of cipher geeks and scholars alike. Gibbs felt that he had finally figured out what the Voynich manuscript was all about! Earlier this week, a fellow named Nicholas Gibbs published an article about the Voynich Manuscript… a book from the 15th century that has apparently confused researchers quite awhile because of how strangely written it is.
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