TheCodeBreakers
" Finer divisions
were represented by alternating consonants and vowels. Many other
artificial languages of this type have been invented, one by Bishop John
Wilkins, who wrote the first book on cryptology in English. Obviously a
text in such a language would repeat its "roots" over and over while its
suffixes would vary—and this phenomenon is very common in the
Voynich manuscript. Friedman planned to test this hypothesis (in which
the English cryptologist Brigadier John H. Tiltman concurs) on an R.C.A.
301 computer, but the work did not progress very far.
Another explanation for the great redundancy is that it reflects the
many repetitions of pharmaceutical formulas that are likely to occur in
an herbal or any medical tract. This is the view of the late Father
Theodore C. Petersen, Ph.D., of St. Paul's College in Washington, B.C.,
an expert in ancient documents who made a 40-year study of the
Voynich manuscript. He thought that minute variations in the shape of
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