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第1段
1 .<-NARRATOR:->Now listen to part of a lecture on the topic you just read about.
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第2段
1 .<-MALE PROFESSOR:->None of the three people mentioned in the reading was probably the author of the Voynich manuscript.
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第3段
1 .According to the first theory, whoever wrote the Voynich manuscript thought they were conveying information so important or so powerful that they used a special code to keep it secret.
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2 .That doesn’t fit what we know about Anthony Ascham.
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3 .Ascham was just an ordinary physician and scientist whose books didn’t contain any original ideas.
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4 .For instance, the Little Herbal mentioned in the reading was a description of common plants based on other well-known sources.
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5 .So, given what we know about Ascham, his books, and the kind of knowledge he had, it seems unlikely he was the author of such an elaborately coded, secret document.
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第4段
1 .Second, although Edward Kelley was notoriously good at tricking people, it seems unlikely that he created the Voynich manuscript as a fake magical book to sell to some rich people.
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2 .You see, the creator of the Voynich manuscript took a lot of care to make the text look like a real code;
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3 .but people in the sixteenth century were quite easy to fool, so it was not necessary to make something this complex.
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4 .If Kelley wanted to create a fake for money, there’s no reason he would’ve put so much work into creating a manuscript like this when a much simpler book would have suited his purpose just as well.
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第5段
1 .Third, we’ve been able to date the manuscript materials using modern methods—both the vellum pages and the ink on the pages.
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2 .Both the vellum and the ink are at least 400 years old. That rules out Voynich as the author.
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3 .If Voynich wanted to create a fake, maybe he could use vellum pages taken from some old manuscripts, but where would he get 400-year-old ink?
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4 .So it seems the manuscript was created centuries before Voynich obtained it.
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