Author Archives: Katie Tucker

Captain’s Blog May 25, 2022: DATA: Location: North Sudan, South Sudan Geolocation: 20°N/30°E Math: Figure Eight Knot “huit” prime knot Rivers: Nile Basin; White Nile, Blue Nile, Sudan Desert Ethnobotany: -cassia sieberiana: a type of hardwood resistant to termites in very dry humid regions/jungle of Sudan and Uganda. -Anguilla Anguilla “European Eel” significant economic value in London. -Schoenoplectus – grows in wetlands withContinue reading “Folio 34v – Nile Basin”

Captain’s Blog: May 21st, 2022 DATA:Location: Anjouan IslandGeolocation: 12°10’S/44°30’EOcean Currents/Gyre: East African Coastal Current; Equatorial Counter Current; Madagascar Current English TranslationValue zero unprocessed wheel time axle is stopping, unite the spherical excess of the triangle. The authors held back the measurement, a consumer descending measurement passing through alee. Use the area connecting the tyes linesContinue reading “Folio 32v – Anjouan Island”

Captain’s Blog: May 21st, 2022 DATA:Location: approaching Comoros IslandsGeolocation: 10°0’S/50°0’EOcean Currents/Gyre: South Equatorial Current Comoros Islands (as seen in folio 32v) English Translation:The crossbar seer projecting end of a radius consumes the area, cover as you approach, convexity you must be moving. Oceanographer: vies east of the grids, sway surely givable. Surveyor: wind is fixedContinue reading “Folio 32r – Comoros Islands”

Captain’s Blog: 5/19/2022 After accomplishing 31r (which took the Agulhas Current East of Madagascar) the task of 31v is to Navigate towards the opening of a canal on the Eastern banks of Madagascar at the base of an Escarpment. To do this the author used surveyors sun observations to calculate bearings; Euclidean Knot Mathematics, EuclideanContinue reading “Folio 31v – East African Coastal Current”

Captain’s Blog 5/13/2022: Analysis of the Author of Folio 31r: There are many different scribes in the Voynich. The author of 31r seems to do the most hardcore extreme locations, the most technically challenging regions in and around Madagascar. A profile of this scribe: the most senior engineer; did not like the cipher as theyContinue reading “Folio 31r: Mozambique Currents”

Captain’s Blog: May 11th, 2022 DATA:Location: West MadagascarGeolocation: 30°0’S/36°EMath: (Surveying) Meander: In legal surveying terms a meander is the deepest part of a channel. Surveyors have in the past used a water channels meander as a property line. The authors use the term meander to describe the deepest part in the Mozambique Basin. These water’sContinue reading “Folio 30r – West Madagascar”

Captain’s Blog: May 11th, 2022 DATA:Location: Southwest of MadagascarGeolocation: 30°0’S/40°0’EOcean Currents/Gyre: Mozambique Ridge; Agulhas Plateau; Trankei BasinEthnobotany: Arrow inflorescence of tassel, a mature sugar cane plantEaster Eggs: Parson Bird. To confirm channel location, the authors put in an Easter Egg of the Parsons Bird and reference the borders of the known world. Near the 36°EContinue reading “Folio 30v – Mozambique Ridge”

Captain’s Blog: May 9th, 2022 DATA:Location: Agulhas Plateau, South AfricaGeolocation: 33°6’S/26°50’EMath: (surveying) solar-observation method (of determining azimuth) using “the apparatus.”Ocean Currents/Gyre: Agulhas Plateau and Currents English Translation:The following way disguises its position velocity of an orifice plate. The instrument of time: secant arc force marks the sun/zone. Confirmed. You are forbidden to join together theContinue reading “Folio 27r – Agulhas Plateau and Currents”

Captain’s Blog: May 9, 2022 DATA:Location: Southwest of MadagascarGeolocation: 36°0’S/40°0’EMath: Time observations using “the apparatus”Ocean Currents/Gyre: Mozambique Channel EddiesEthnobotany: Nigella Sativa (black cumin) – medicine cure for almost anything.Easter Eggs: -Leaves are Poland’s Flag in reverse-Flowers are Polish Church’s in the Catalan Atlas, (pg. 49) depicting Kiev Ukraine longitude. Images Above: (Left) Catalan Atlas Kiev Ukraine;Continue reading “Folio 29v – Flag of Poland”

Captain’s Blog: May 9, 2022 DATA:Location: South of MadagascarGeolocation: 36°0’S/40°0’EMath: Interannual Eddy Kinetic EnergyOcean Currents/Gyre: Agulhas Return CurrentEaster Eggs: Translation refers to an Eagle, paragraph 2 last word “egla.” Eagle is Poland’s flag approx. 40° longitude, also depicted in folios 28v and 29v.-Notice the leaves in folio 29r, they are a depiction of the shipContinue reading “Folio 29r – Mozambique Plateau and Agulhas Plateau”