Mysterious Voynich book

The Voynich manuscript is the most mysterious book in the world. The messages inside the manuscript remain a mystery to mathematicians and linguists in the past century.

For many people the so-called Voynich book is a joke, a hoax, but a new study published in PloS One shows that this manuscript may contain a special message. Scientists say they find patterns of language and believe that they are meaningful words in the text.

Historical story

The book dates back to the early 1400s but it mysteriously disappeared until 1912, an old book dealer, Wilfrid Voynich , bought it and some used publications in Italy.

In the book there is a letter written in 1666, sent from a man named Joannes Marcus Marci to Althanasius Kircher, revealing to us the missing pieces of the book's birth.

The book has a size of 23.5 x 16.2 x 5cm, including about 240 pages of leatherette paper.

According to the letter, the owner once owned the Voynich manuscript of Emperor Rudolph II . At that time, this was an extremely passionate king of antiques collecting, he went to Prague (Czech Republic today) and bought this book with an unbelievable price of 600 dong ducat, equivalent to 3.5kg of gold (about USD 80,000 - more than VND 1.6 billion). After the king's death, the precious book fell into various scholars and merchants and suddenly disappeared in the 17th century before meeting Wilfrid Voynich. The book also bears his name.

Voynich was with the manuscript named after him - "Voynich Manuscript".

Having obtained the book, Voynich sought to sell it because he thought it was a precious ancient material, but until his death, he could not sell it at the desired price. His wife died, the book was bought by an ancient bookstore in New York (USA) Hans Kraus for $ 24,500 (about 500 million VND). In 1969, the book was donated to Yale University (USA) and "lived" there so far.

A few sketches about the portrait of the mystery book

The book has no title , is a manuscript manuscript with medieval ink. The book has a size of 23.5 x 16.2 x 5cm, including about 240 pages of leatherette paper. According to studies of the Voynich manuscript, it was initially thought that the book had about 272 pages but was missing when it went through the hands of different owners. The order in which pages appear is also a question of whether the book has been modified from its original.

The topic in the book is extremely diverse and rich .

. with many images of fields such as medicine .

Although it is a manuscript manuscript, scientists claim that there is no misspelling or misspelling in the Voynich manuscript. This proves that the author has carefully considered the book before putting the pen. The topic in the book is also diverse and rich with many images of astrology, medicine, and creatures . Many people believe that this may be the work of the Phan-xi-mon monks. she and the great magician Roger Bacon .

Voynich cryptography - a challenge for many generations .

The highlight of the Voynich manuscript became the most mysterious book in human history in the handwriting and pictures in the book. These are the most difficult to read encoded characters in the world . In the Voynich manuscript, the author uses cryptographic scripts, which are similar in character to the Latin system, but are actually studied carefully.

Images of astrology in the manuscript

Whether the book actually contains meaning is a problem that scientists have argued a lot.

Typically, in 1919, Professor of Philosophy William Romaine Newbold (University of Pennsylvania) announced that he had successfully solved the code in the ancient manuscript manuscript. Accordingly, he asserted a medieval scientist - Roger Bacon, created a microscope, a telescope in front of both Galilée and Newton for centuries. However, Newbold's decoding method is entirely based on inference. In 1931, Professor John Manly (University of Chicago - USA) proved this. Understandably, with Newbold's way, the book will give out what you think in your head.

The Voynich book has been studied by a group of excellent decoders during the Second World War. This group has been very successful in deciphering the secret cables of the enemy. But, with this manuscript, they give up because they can't find meaning in the text.

Dr. Marcelo Montemurro, a theoretical physicist at the University of Manchester (UK), spent many years using his model for language analysis. He hopes to shed light on the mysteries of the manuscript and believes that his research is taking important steps. The BBC quoted Montemurro as saying that this is the only document, no similar work and all previous attempts to decode it failed. He believes that it has a linguistic and meaningful structure.

Dr. Montemurro and a colleague used a computerized statistical method to analyze text pages. This is the method used in other languages. They focus on the model to find the sequences of words to expect that the meaning of the content that the book carries in it.

In the book, in addition to the strange writing system, there are also images in all fields: biology, reproduction, cooking .

In particular, some photos of trees painted in the book transiently look like herbal plants but in fact, they are not present on this globe.The question is: where do the authors draw those trees?

What it " exposes " to the eyes of our readers is still a mystery left open.

Thus, it can be said, the Voynich manuscript is the most mysterious ancient document in human history. Reading it seemed to be an impossible task. What it " exposes " to our readers is still a mystery left open, waiting to be revealed at an unknown time in the future.