Topic: Voynich Manuscript
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Central London history / mystery book meet…?
Here’s a quicky idea…I have (possibly literally) a ton of books in my library, most of which seems to revolve...
Here’s a quicky idea…I have (possibly literally) a ton of books in my library, most of which seems to revolve...
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Review of “The Agony Column Codes & Ciphers”…
A few days ago, chess-playing crypto guy Tony Gaffney emailed Cipher Mysteries about “The Subtelty Of Witches” in...
A few days ago, chess-playing crypto guy Tony Gaffney emailed Cipher Mysteries about “The Subtelty Of Witches” in...
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“The Voynich Enigma” just released…
Wah, looky heyuh - it’s another Voynich novel to add to my big fat list. Retired chemical industry R&D / sales guy...
Wah, looky heyuh - it’s another Voynich novel to add to my big fat list. Retired chemical industry R&D / sales guy...
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Carolus Clusius correspondence…
As regular Cipher Mysteries readers will know, I’ve recently become particularly interested in early modern...
As regular Cipher Mysteries readers will know, I’ve recently become particularly interested in early modern...
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Review of “The Voynich Project”…
As a Brit, there’s a very particular class of American-made sequel that fills my film-watching soul with despair. On...
As a Brit, there’s a very particular class of American-made sequel that fills my film-watching soul with despair. On...
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Adrenalini! Réndøosîa! Yahzaa!
Here’s a tiny crypto puzzle for you from the award-winning Adrenalini Brothers cartoon series. There, the three...
Here’s a tiny crypto puzzle for you from the award-winning Adrenalini Brothers cartoon series. There, the three...
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Review of “Secret Knowledge”…
Back in 2001, David Hockney proposed a radical new take on art history: that around 1430, artists began to use a camera...
Back in 2001, David Hockney proposed a radical new take on art history: that around 1430, artists began to use a camera...
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Philip Neal strikes again…
Not content with having given us fantastic English translations of all the key 17th century VMs-related documents, my old...
Not content with having given us fantastic English translations of all the key 17th century VMs-related documents, my old...
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Voynich Manuscript and David Hockney…
Reading through the revised (2006) edition of David Hockney’s “Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the lost techniques...
Reading through the revised (2006) edition of David Hockney’s “Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the lost techniques...
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Jesuit libraries and archives…
Following on from Philip Neal’s translations, I wondered to myself: what might be lurking in Jesuit archives...
Following on from Philip Neal’s translations, I wondered to myself: what might be lurking in Jesuit archives...
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New translations…
Back in May this year, I suggested to my friend Philip Neal that a really useful Voynich research thing he could do would be...
Back in May this year, I suggested to my friend Philip Neal that a really useful Voynich research thing he could do would be...
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Pseudo-science and The Curse of the Voynich…
A German Voynich article by Klaus Schmeh just pinged on the Cipher Mysteries radar screen: the ten-second summary is that in...
A German Voynich article by Klaus Schmeh just pinged on the Cipher Mysteries radar screen: the ten-second summary is that in...
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The wisdom of a crowded forum…
On the one hand, “Linus’ Law” asserts that if enough people collaborate to solve a problem, it becomes simple...
On the one hand, “Linus’ Law” asserts that if enough people collaborate to solve a problem, it becomes simple...
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The mystery of Bellaso’s ciphers…
A little while back, I asked Augusto Buonafalce about Renaissance cryptographer Giovan Battista Bellaso’s challenge...
A little while back, I asked Augusto Buonafalce about Renaissance cryptographer Giovan Battista Bellaso’s challenge...
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A new VMs hypothesis…
Halfway through Blunt and Raphael’s “The Illustrated Herbal”, a small lightbulb flickered briefly to life in...
Halfway through Blunt and Raphael’s “The Illustrated Herbal”, a small lightbulb flickered briefly to life in...
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Review of “The Illustrated Herbal”…
It’s an oldie, but a goodie: first published in 1979, Wilfrid Blunt and Sandra Raphael’s “The Illustrated...
It’s an oldie, but a goodie: first published in 1979, Wilfrid Blunt and Sandra Raphael’s “The Illustrated...
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British Library cipher manuscript…?
Are you an historian with an enciphered document you want to read? If so, here’s a link to an article you really ought to...
Are you an historian with an enciphered document you want to read? If so, here’s a link to an article you really ought to...
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Historical hoaxes…
I recently stumbled across a forum discussion comparing the Voynich Manuscript to the “Maybrick Diary” (oh, and...
I recently stumbled across a forum discussion comparing the Voynich Manuscript to the “Maybrick Diary” (oh, and...
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Voynich miscellany, once again…
Do you fancy a little personal journal with a front cover loosely inspired by the VMs (the plant at the top of page f18r, to...
Do you fancy a little personal journal with a front cover loosely inspired by the VMs (the plant at the top of page f18r, to...
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Review of “The Six Unsolved Ciphers”…
…or, in all its prolixitous glory, ”The Six Unsolved Ciphers: Inside the Mysterious Codes That Have Confounded the...
…or, in all its prolixitous glory, ”The Six Unsolved Ciphers: Inside the Mysterious Codes That Have Confounded the...
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Voynich and Orlando Bloom…?
According to the Holy Moly website, the continuing movie career of “dead-eyed rat boy” Orlando Bloom “is a...
According to the Holy Moly website, the continuing movie career of “dead-eyed rat boy” Orlando Bloom “is a...
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How academics stomp on ideas - a flowchart
Of course, you knew all about this kind of idea stompery already, I’m sure: but all the same, it’s nice to see it...
Of course, you knew all about this kind of idea stompery already, I’m sure: but all the same, it’s nice to see it...
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