Why Can't the Voynich manuscript Be Deciphered?

        Polish antique book collector Wilfrid Vovnich was convinced he hit the jackpot when he purch sed a highly  unusual manuscript in Italy in 1912. It was written in a strange script and profusely illustrated with images of plants, the cosmos and zodiac, and naked women cavorting in bathing scenes.    Voynich    himself acknowledged the difficult task that lay ahead: "The text must be unraveled and the history of the manuscript must be traced."   

     

   The Voynich manuscript is a codex written  on vellum sheets, measuring 9 inches (23.5 cm) by 4 inches (11.2 cm). The codex is composed of roughly 240 pages, with a blank cover that does not indicate a title or author. The text consists of "words" written in an unknown "alphabet" and arranged  in  short  paragraphs.  Many researchers say the work seems to be a scientific treatise from the Middle Ages, possibly created in Italy. The time frame, jackpot when he purch sed a highly  unusual manuscript in Italy in 1912. It was written in a strange script and profusely illustrated with images of plants, the cosmos and zodiac, and naked women cavorting in bathing scenes.    Voynich    himself acknowledged the difficult task that lay ahead: "The text must be unraveled and the history of the manuscript must be traced."  at least,  seems correct:  In 2009,  the   Voynich manuscript was carbon-dated to    1404-1438.   
          

   There's only one problem: The contents   of the book are a complete mystery-and   not a single word of it can be understood.      The enigma of the manuscript certainly   isn't due to a lack of research and careful  study. The text had already been analyzed  for  many  decades  before  Voynich  purchased it. Once in possession of the  codex, Voynich embarked on a brisk  campaign to have its text deciphered,  supplying photocopies to several experts.  Since then, dozens of cryptographers and linguists have tried and failed to crack the code and decipher its base language. Astronomers,    historians,    chemists, mathematicians, and scores of laypeople have also proposed solutions, but none has shed any light on what the text says. Botanists, however, have identified many of the plant species as New World or European.   Indeed, the Voynich manuscript may actually contain no meaningful conrent, possibly because  it was  a  deliberate deception on the part of its author or because its meaning became muddled in the writing process. In 2007. Austrian mathematician Andreas Schinner claimed the manuscript may have been created by "an autistic monk, who subconsciously followed a strange mathematical algorithm in his head." 
    
      To this day, scholarship, speculation, and debate over the meaning of the Voynich manuscript continue unabated. Among recent theories are that the manuscript was written by a young Leonardo da Vinci or by Cornelius Drebbel, a 17th-century chemist and optics developer, in collaboration with English philosopher Francis Bacon, which would put the carbon dating calculations into question. Another theory suggests the document originated with the Aztecs in Central America.    And of course, there is the possibility that the manuscript is a hoax.