Hi-res scans on Voynich Manuscript on Flickr

Enjoy these high-res scans of the mysterious 16th-Century parchment book known as the Voynich Manuscript (which is likely to be a 500-year-old hoax). Link

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Dan says:

While there may be other reasons to suspect the Voynich Manuscript as a hoax, Dr. Schinner's work reflects only a failed attempt to cryptanalyze an encrypted message. Even truly awful cryptosystems will emit a stream of numbers that will match a "quasi-random gibberish generator". In fact, it's here that Dr. Schinner has a real problem: Humans are notoriously awful at generating high quality entropy. So if Dr. Schinner has in fact detected an excess of randomness in the datastream, then he's shown the author had available to him the raw materials necessary to encrypt an arbitrary message.