Comments on: “History Today” Spanish telescope article…

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:22:22 +0000

Wow, fascinating article that I just stumbled upon here! It’s amazing to think that someone spent over 10 years verifying this stuff. Now, that’s what I call some serious passion!

By: nickpelling

nickpelling — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:38:13 +0000

To be precise, Richard SantaColoma’s suggestion was that the tubes in the Voynich Manuscript might be microscopes, rather than telescopes per se. However, the timeline doesn’t really seem to work, given that the frequently-suggested notion that microscopes may have been invented in “1590″ or “1595″ seems just plain wrong. In fact, 1619/1620 is just about the earliest plausible date, with Drebbel and Galileo both strong candidates: yet the Voynich Manuscript was apparently bought by Rudolf II, who died in 1612!

Oh, and never mind the apparently 15th century handwriting: but what are a few facts between friends?

By: learn spanish review

learn spanish review — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:02:20 +0000

That’s quite true, telescopes were proportionately much longer than the tubes in the manuscript.

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Tecnología Obsoleta » Blog Archive » ¿Quién inventó el telescopio? — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:45:40 +0000

[...] de la aparición del telescopio en Holanda, un polifacético informático que atiende al nombre de Nick Pelling, publicó recientemente en History Today un artículo en el que afirma rotundamente que el [...]

By: H. Richard SantaColoma

H. Richard SantaColoma — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:13:03 +0000

Nick: Great blog, really informative and very extensive. I only want to clarify for your readers, that rather than my theory proposing the Voynich contains, “…images of telescopes disguised as strange tiered albarelli”. I do propose that the Voynich contains optics, but most likely microscopes, and less likely telescopes. Telescopes were proportionately much longer than the tubes in the manuscript. The example of Galileo’s telescope is included on my site only to show how optics were constructed, and decorated, in the time frame my theory proposes:
http://www.santa-coloma.net/voynich_drebbel/voynich.html

Also, I do not believe they were “disguised as albarelli”. They look quite like optics to me, as they are. Thank you for the comments, and keep up the great work. Rich.

By: chris.w

chris.w — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:46:18 +0000

Hi in the voynich writing ive noticed that if you put a stroke for line going down and anything that could make a circle you would get this off one of the lines -….-.–.-.-.–.—.–.-.-.–.- if you cut in half the writing and use the bottom half counting c a o as . and lines as – thats what you get use bacons code abbba or baaaab and see what you get cos i aint bothering lol probably says one flew over the co co nest.any way try breaking this cipher for me at http://www.swapz.co.uk/search/?keyword=16th&search_type=1&location=0 the stringed disk. chris.w