Raymond Clemens
Autor de Introduction to Manuscript Studies
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Créditos de la imagen: Illinois State University
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Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods (Technology and Change in History) (2008) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
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- Clemens, Raymond
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- 1966-06-16
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- Columbia University
University of Chicago
Oberlin College - Ocupaciones
- historian
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- Illinois State University
Newberry Library
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
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With no background anywhere near that of the greats who have scratched their heads over this, I'm still left wondering, as always, whether the Voynich is some sort of highly obscure, occult text or a lucky man's trip through an alien landscape. I'd love to think that the otherworldly plants exist somewhere out there that we have yet to discover, perhaps because we're not ready for it yet, and that all the text is meant to tell us how best to navigate such an environment. Or maybe it's a collection of arcane rituals that may or may not have any impact on human lives. The missing pages come to mind - a whole chunk out of the "herbal" section, along with a few missing from the possible "recipe/usage" section, which could be a few key plants taken out of the picture by someone who knew them. (Kircher, perhaps? I still find it strange that anyone would send him an entire book overseas asking for a translation, when it could so easily get lost in transit along with any promising results. Plus, no answer from Kircher was received in the end.) So much mystery, and there's a chance that some of the necessary answers are simply hiding in plain sight - in the pages of the Voynich itself, a pile of artifacts in some private collection, or even a stack of unsorted documents in a museum archive. Makes me wish I had gone into a field that allowed me to pore over ancient books every day.
At the same time, as much as I want the mystery to be solved, I love that it remains unsolved. No other work that I know of has captivated people from so many walks of life, across so many centuries and generations, despite not a single word of it being understood. By the very puzzle of its existence, it brings people together - and I can't help but wonder whether its nameless writer, lost in the endless march of time, might not have intended this in the first place.… (más)