English project

"THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE"

By David Contreras Tiscareño

Teacher: Javier Ornelas Martinez
The Voynich Manuscript
 Purchased by rare-book dealer Wilfrid Voynich in 1912, the
text doesn’t appear particularly remarkable at first glance.

 A series of paragraphs over the course of 240 pages

accompanied by illustrations and diagrams, broken into
what appear to be six distinct sections. The sections appear
to describe different topics of herbal, astronomical,
biological, cosmological, and pharmaceutical nature.
 The writing is composed of over 170,000 characters written
in patterns that resemble natural language. Twenty or 30
glyphs can account for nearly the entire text, with the
exception of a few stray characters that appear only once.

 It was written smoothly, with no evidence of errors or

corrections anywhere, and no evidence of pauses during
writing, which one would expect with encoded text. Almost
as to suggest that the language was natural for whoever
wrote it.

 Carbon dating revealed that the script was written between

the years 1404 and 1438, and although theories have been
offered, nobody actually knows the author of the work.
Tring to solve the mystery…
 The easy and dumbest form is that some people argument
like is only a joke or trap for curious people and scrawls
whiteout sense.
 some experts say that this manuscript can treat health for
women and that its origin is Mesoamerican thanks to the
plants drawn there are similar to those of this region and that
its purpose only of measurement and health, also argue that
the author who goes there been had many knowledge about
medieval medicine
 Baghdad Battery
 Baghdad batteries suggests the possibility of far more shocking scientific advances in the field — a mind-
blowing 2,000 years earlier. Discovered in 1936, and thought to have been created in the Mesopotamian
region, these clay pots contain galvanised iron nails wrapped with copper sheeting, and some
archaeologists theorise that an acidic liquid was used to generate an electric current inside the jar.

 If correct, these artefacts would predate the currently accepted timeline for the invention of the
electrochemical cell, attributed to Alessandro Volta, by more than two millennia.

 Whether or not the artefacts were in fact used as batteries is highly contested by archaeologists, and what
the resulting electrical current was used for is also a complete mystery, as we have no historical records
from that time.
How this really work…
 Some people theories that they might have
been used for electroplating objects
 Other scientific and specialist of the theme says
that this batteries were used for some medical
proposes, like to make some electric charges

 After World War II, Willard Gray, an electronics

engineer at the High Voltage Laboratory of the
General Electric Company in Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, manufactured a duplicate of
these batteries and filled them with copper
sulfate ( although he stated that another liquid
electrolyte could have been used within the
reach of the inhabitants of Iraq at the time:
ordinary grape juice). The battery operated and
generated between one and two volts