• @takeheart
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    23 days ago

    I’m leaning heavily towards hoax on this one. Surely some botanist somewhere would recognize the illustrations? Nowadays it’s a hard sell that there’s some secretly place somewhere that hasn’t been charted botanically.

    • @a_g_dizzle
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      42 days ago

      This assumes that the book is a technical manuscript so the drawings of plants are intended as technical drawings of actual plants. But this might not be the case. For all we know the book might be a work of fiction so the illustrator took creative liberties while drawing the plants.

  • @assa123
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    64 days ago

    Hypotheses range from a script for a natural language or constructed language, an unread code, cypher, or other form of cryptography, or perhaps a hoax, reference work (i.e. folkloric index or compendium), glossolalia[19] or work of fiction (e.g. science fantasy or mythopoeia, metafiction, speculative fiction).