There are many rare books in Benec Library. Most people are particularly interested in "Voinic manuscripts" because no one has fully understood them so far. The whole manuscript is written in code, which even top cryptographers and linguists can't translate.
The manuscript is 25.5cm long and18cm wide, with about 200 pages. It is made of exquisite leather paper, which is full of unique characters and composed of letters that others have never seen before. The illustrations in the manuscript are equally strange, and seem to depict plants, women and astronomical maps. Because words and books are not easy to understand, this manuscript is called the most difficult manuscript in the world. There are many illustrations of plants in the manuscript, so many researchers think that the manuscript may be a paper on the efficacy of plants, but there are still many different speculations.
19 12, new york bookseller Vonyik claimed that he found this manuscript in the library of the Italian mondragon College, which was founded by Frascati at the expense of Jesuits. Vonyik bought the manuscript, brought it back to new york, and began to trace its source. There is a letter in the manuscript, which was written by Marcy, the president of Prague University and an outstanding scientist, to the famous scholar Koch in 1666. With this letter, tracing seems much easier.
Marcy said in his letter that he got the manuscript from "a close friend" and handed it to Kocher, because he was sure that no one could understand it except Kocher. The letter also said that according to reliable information, this manuscript once belonged to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II who died in 16 12. Rudolph spent 600 gold coins on the manuscript, which was a lot of money at that time.
The most important point in Marcy's letter is that Rudolph thinks that the author of the manuscript is an Englishman Bacon. Bacon was born in13rd century, and enjoyed a high reputation in medieval academic circles. He was called "an extraordinary doctor". Bacon was far-sighted and predicted many things that only appeared in the 20th century, such as cars and airplanes. He is an expert in mathematics and physics, and also a philosopher and alchemist with high prestige.
Will Vonyik Manuscripts be Bacon's greatest work, and the scientific theory is so advanced that it can't be written in ordinary words? Voinic wanted to find the answer, so he distributed copies to interested scholars for research, but most of them knew nothing about it. At first, they thought that the password of the manuscript was quite simple and not difficult to decipher. After studying, they realized that this was not the same thing.
After nearly 60 years, no progress has been made in manuscript research. It was not until the 1970s that Professor Bramble of Yale University began to study this problem that he got a clue. When he saw some symbols in the manuscript, he remembered that he had accidentally seen a chart in another document, in which symbols represented numbers.
Professor Brambo carefully examined several blanks in the manuscript and found some formulas written at random. It seems that the author may also use digital codes. He found a chart on the edge of a page. There are 26 symbols on the desk, the number of which is just equal to the number of English letters. The symbols in the table and their arrangement order are almost exactly the same as those in the margin formula.
Is this a clue to crack the code? Does every number from 1 to 9 represent three of the 26 letters? Brambo listed the following table:123456789 abcdefchijklmn0pq (us) RST UVWYZ Most of the words in Vonyik Manuscript proved to be a simplified Latin, and the suffix was often US. In this set of passwords, Bramble uses 9 to represent us.
Is this chart the password used in the manuscript? The illustration on one page of the manuscript depicts a plant like pepper. Brambo substituted the number into the symbol below the illustration and got 757752. According to these numbers, check the chart and spell the English name of pepper. The names of other plants and stars are translated in the same way.
The secret of "Vonyik Manuscript" has not been revealed. For example, the main part of the original text is repetitive and often seems meaningless. Professor Brambo speculated that it might be an alchemist's scribble record, trying to use mysterious substances or alchemists to turn stones into gold in an ancient way. If so, is there a recipe for alchemy hidden in this mysterious manuscript? To reveal the truth of "Vonyik Manuscripts", it seems that scholars need further study.