Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge the specific theories presented in the reading passage. where origin of the Voynich manuscript?
The reading and lecture are both about the origin of the Voynich manuscript, which is the handwritten book. The author of reading believes that there are some theories that show the root of this book, but the professor is of the opinion that these hypotheses which each of them related to a person are wrong.
First of all, the author suggests that the manuscript is a magical book that wrote by secret code because the Ascham's book has information about a medicinal book that can prove this statement. This idea is challenged by the lecture. He says that this opinion is not true about Ascham, because he was just an ordinary physician that his books had original ideas. Furthermore, he argues that the subject that mentioned in the reading is about common plants based on well-known sources, consequently, according to what we know about Ascham it is unlikely he created a book by secret code.
Secondly, the writer contends that the manuscript is a fake book and has no real meaning. The article notes, this script wrote by Edward Kelley because he wanted to a wealthy noble, so he invented the book to show his magical powers, thus he used an alphabet in a random structure to confuse a reader. The lecture, however, rebuts this by asserting that it is inconceivable that this book was made by Kelley because the people of the sixteenth-century were a fool and was not necessary to create the complex book. He elaborates on this by mentioning that if Edward wanted to reach his goal, he could write a simpler book than the Voynich manuscript.
Finally, it is stated in the article that the manuscript is the modern false, which produced by Voynich himself. The reading establishes that he had a lot of information about the old manuscript; as a result, he made the fake book to sell the as mysterious book. The lecture, on the other hand, posits that nowadays, we able to determine to date the manuscript substances. Besides, he mentions that Voynich might get vellum pages from some old manuscript, but how he could get the ink because it is at least 400 years old.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, consequently, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, well, at least, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 22.412803532 228% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1717.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 363.0 270.72406181 134% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73002754821 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65077911862 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490358126722 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 529.2 419.366225166 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.5158868091 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.642857143 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9285714286 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.2857142857 7.06452816374 160% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.122764137513 0.272083759551 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0632878204138 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0447854435437 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0944236032433 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0411322884867 0.0443174109184 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.45 12.2367328918 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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