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Well, yesвЂ¦ but where are they in the Vms вЂњcylindersвЂќ? Rather than вЂњplainlyвЂќ being just like these stoves, IвЂ™d say it is one of the worst comparisons IвЂ™ve seenвЂ¦ and weвЂ™ve seen inkwells, perpetual candles, and of course, pharma and herbal jars. вЂњThe square ventilation apertures are clearly visible in both drawings and woodcuts.вЂќ The author says they are вЂњplainlyвЂќ these stoves, and yet when we look at the very illustration he refers to: Once again I was trawling through the woodcuts of two related books of the period when I came across an example of the stove on the title page of Das Buch Zu Distillern (1485), by the surgeon and botanist Hieronyus Brunschwygk (1450вЂ“1512).вЂќ вЂњThe cylinder-churns mentioned above are plainly medieval cooking stoves with inverted boiling vessels. If you think your readers would be interested (of course remove it if it is too much), IвЂ™ve copied my entire critique from FB: For instance, he wrote:ДЄuthor writes, вЂњThe foldout diagram of nine illustrated spheres found in the Voynich manuscript proved the key to understanding itвЂ¦ вЂ¦The design, in spite of its Persian influence, is definitely Mediterranean in style and content.вЂќ Richard SantaColoma, another Voynich Manuscript expert and reader of this blog, posted a long list of вЂњred flagsвЂќ that make GibbsвЂ™ solution suspicious. Most reactions on the Voynich Manuscript mailing list were negative, as well. I could list a whole load of things that are wrong with this, but IвЂ™d be typing all night on a TL DR post and nobody would care. For instance, Nick Pelling included the following statement in a blog post titled WhatвЂ™s wrong with todayвЂ™s Voynich theory?: Almost all expert comments I have seen so far are negative. GibbsвЂ™ Voynich Manuscript theory has received a lot of attention in the Voynich scene. None of these claim has ever been accepted by the Voynich experts.

Still others even believe that the Voynich manuscript was written by extraterrestrials. Other Voynich solvers believe that the manuscript was written in some old or lost language or that it was encrypted in a peculiar way. It can be said that GibbsвЂ™ alleged solution is one of the less spectacular ones. Announcing a solution to one of the worldвЂ™s most spectaccular mystery and then giving so little information is not necessarily what I call quality journalism. ThereвЂ™s not much more of cryptographical interest I can find in the TLS article. Though Gibbs writes a few lines about the alleged meaning of this diagram, it doesnвЂ™t become clear to me how he derived his alleged Voynich Manuscript solution from it. According to Gibbs, the Voynich Manuscript is written in an abbreviated Latin with every letter standing for a word.ДЄpparently the following figure Gibbs calls the вЂњdiagram of nine illustrated spheresвЂќ played a key role in breaking the Voynich Manuscript code: However, the actual solution is not explained in detail. GibbвЂ™s article tells us a lot about bathing, medicine and herbariums in the Middle Ages. As long as no publication of this kind has accepted GibbsвЂ™ findings, I remain skeptical. On the other hand, no scientific magazine with peer review (such as the Cryptologia) has reported on this story. On the one hand, never has a Voynich Manuscript solution been published in such a prominent magazine. Apparently, GibbsвЂ™ Voynich Manuscript solution is even the title story of the current issue. He has published his theory in a leading British literature magazine, which is closely tied to one of the most renowned newspapers in the world вЂ“ the Times Literary Supplement.

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In fact, Nicholas Gibbs, who discovered this solution, is a professional history researcher. This time, the new theory is not the work of a hobby scientist, who has made available his findings on a private website. It would be no problem to list 50 of them.ДЄ few days ago, another alleged Voynich Manuscript solution was published (thanks to Sven Rudloff, Tobias SchrГ¶del, Eberhard Bauer, Stefan Fendt, Knut Junker, and Dr. So far, I have introduced only three of these on my blog. However, while вЂњsolvingвЂќ the Kennedy murder seems to have gone a little out of style, still one Voynich Manuscript solution is chasing the other. The Kennedy murder and the Voynich Manuscript have one thing in common вЂ“ both have been вЂњsolvedвЂќ dozens of times by hobby researchers and investigators. The latest alleged solution was published earlier this week in a renowned literature magazine. Meanwhile over 50 scholars have claimed to have solved the Voynich Manuscript.

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