The reading passage explains three possible theories about the author of Voynich manuscript. However, in the lecture the professor respectively contradicts all the assertions by using three specific points as supports.
At first, the idea of Anatony Ascham was the author of this mysterious manuscript due to the analogues between scientific information of Voynich with those in Ascham's medicine book. While the lecturer points out the fact that people on the era of Anthony was too illiterate to understand the content of his book. So, he had no need to encode his book and he is highly unlikely to be the writer of the Voynich.
Secondly, the reading mentiones that Edward Kelley who pretend to have magic power for deceiving people made a fake book to get money from them. On the other hand, the professor repudiates this idea by saying that people on that time are too simple to need so much effort for cheating them.
Finally, althogh the reading passage claims that Wlfrid as a big dealer of antique material might create the fake manuscript to attract the attention of people who hd passion into ancient things, But the professor states that the survey on the age og ink of manuscript shows that he lived many years after the creation of this book and the ink is older than his time.
The reading passage
explains
three possible theories about the author of
Voynich
manuscript
.
However
, in the lecture the professor
respectively
contradicts all the assertions by using three specific points as supports.
At
first
, the
idea
of
Anatony
Ascham
was the author of this mysterious
manuscript
due to the analogues between scientific information of
Voynich
with those in
Ascham
's medicine
book
.
While
the lecturer points out the fact that
people
on the era of Anthony was too illiterate to understand the content of his
book
.
So
, he had no need to encode his
book and
he is
highly
unlikely to be the writer of the
Voynich
.
Secondly
, the reading
mentiones
that Edward Kelley who pretend to have magic power for deceiving
people
made a fake
book
to
get
money from them.
On the other hand
, the professor repudiates this
idea
by saying that
people
on that time are too simple to need
so
much effort for cheating them.
Finally
,
althogh
the reading passage claims that
Wlfrid
as a
big
dealer of antique material might create the fake
manuscript
to attract the attention of
people
who hd
passion into ancient things,
But
the professor states that the survey on the age
og
ink of
manuscript
shows
that he
lived
many
years after the creation of this
book
and the ink is older than his time.