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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Leonardo da Vinci</title>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Da Vinci claim&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/10/02/todays-da-vinci-claim</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/10/02/todays-da-vinci-claim#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some days I wonder if I should forget all about cipher mysteries &#8211; which are, quite frankly, far too much like hard work &#8211; and instead start up a news feed that promises subscribers one thing and one thing only: a freshly hatched cracked Leonardo da Vinci theory every day. But even if such a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Some days I wonder if I should forget all about cipher mysteries &#8211; which are, quite frankly, far too much like hard work &#8211; and instead start up a news feed that promises subscribers one thing and one thing only: a freshly hatched cracked Leonardo da Vinci theory every day.
But even if such a tragic [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Leonardo da Vinci fruity theory roundup&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/09/27/leonardo-da-vinci-fruity-theory-roundup</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/09/27/leonardo-da-vinci-fruity-theory-roundup#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What would it feel like to be a footballer with no goal? An actor with no stage? A projector with no screen? Or (finally getting to the point) a pseudohistorian with no infamous historical figure to attach his/her nutty theories onto? All of which is why I feel sorry for poor old Leonardo da Vinci. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[What would it feel like to be a footballer with no goal? An actor with no stage? A projector with no screen? Or (finally getting to the point) a pseudohistorian with no infamous historical figure to attach his/her nutty theories onto?
All of which is why I feel sorry for poor old Leonardo da Vinci. He [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Leonardo latest news&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/12/27/leonardo-latest-news</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Leonardo da Vinci has been in the news. Firstly, a local journalist found a fragment of Leonardo&#8217;s writing in Nantes library, which had received it in 1872 along with 5,000 other documents (including an unknown Mozart score) from &#8220;wealthy collector Pierre-Antoine Labouchère&#8220;. It hasn&#8217;t yet been transcribed or translated, so I couldn&#8217;t possibly comment [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Once again, Leonardo da Vinci has been in the news. Firstly, a local journalist found a fragment of Leonardo&#8217;s writing in Nantes library, which had received it in 1872 along with 5,000 other documents (including an unknown Mozart score) from &#8220;wealthy collector Pierre-Antoine Labouchère&#8220;. It hasn&#8217;t yet been transcribed or translated, so I couldn&#8217;t possibly comment [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>First photograph by Durer of a Da Vinci drawing? Riiiiight&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/11/27/first-photograph-by-durer-of-a-da-vinci-drawing-riiiiight</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/11/27/first-photograph-by-durer-of-a-da-vinci-drawing-riiiiight#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phaistos Disc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sacred Geometry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard the curious story from May 2008 about how Sotheby&#8217;s withdrew a picture from auction that was suspected of having been optically captured by Thomas Wedgwood in the 1790s, some 30 years before the first &#8216;official&#8217; photo was taken. Photography historian Dr Larry J. Schaaf speculated that this was so &#8221;based on the letter [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[You may have heard the curious story from May 2008 about how Sotheby&#8217;s withdrew a picture from auction that was suspected of having been optically captured by Thomas Wedgwood in the 1790s, some 30 years before the first &#8216;official&#8217; photo was taken. Photography historian Dr Larry J. Schaaf speculated that this was so &#8221;based on the letter [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Leonardo&#8217;s unexpected elephant&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/11/26/leonardos-unexpected-elephant</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/11/26/leonardos-unexpected-elephant#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, much as I deplore the relentless, adulatory stripmining of Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s works, I do rather enjoy seeing infra-red images of paintings, glimpsing the construction marks left beneath the surface. And so I have nothing but good things to say about Discovery News&#8217; series of infra-red images of Leonardo&#8217;s &#8220;Adoration of the Magi&#8221;. I like the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[OK, much as I deplore the relentless, adulatory stripmining of Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s works, I do rather enjoy seeing infra-red images of paintings, glimpsing the construction marks left beneath the surface. And so I have nothing but good things to say about Discovery News&#8217; series of infra-red images of Leonardo&#8217;s &#8220;Adoration of the Magi&#8221;. I like the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The 14th European Skeptics Conference &#8211; does it really exist?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/09/14/the-14th-european-skeptics-conference-does-it-really-exist</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/09/14/the-14th-european-skeptics-conference-does-it-really-exist#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Kelley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bacon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next European Skeptics Conference starts in Budapest in a few days&#8217; time (17th-19th September 2010), and features Klaus Schmeh giving a talk on the Voynich Manuscript. Though Klaus has invested a lot of effort into building up a hardline skeptical position on VMs theories (basically, that more or less everything written on it is either pseudoscience or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The next European Skeptics Conference starts in Budapest in a few days&#8217; time (17th-19th September 2010), and features Klaus Schmeh giving a talk on the Voynich Manuscript.
Though Klaus has invested a lot of effort into building up a hardline skeptical position on VMs theories (basically, that more or less everything written on it is either pseudoscience or pseudohistory), [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;Actually, I&#8217;m writing a book on machines&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/04/25/actually-im-writing-a-book-on-machines</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/04/25/actually-im-writing-a-book-on-machines#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere during the last decade, historians picked up got the idea that history book publishers wanted to be pitched &#8216;vertical&#8217; books about individual microsubjects, books that somehow try to recapitulate the last N-thousand years of human history as viewed through the narrow prism of, say, salt or swearing or codpieces. All of which somehow reminds me [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Somewhere during the last decade, historians picked up got the idea that history book publishers wanted to be pitched &#8216;vertical&#8217; books about individual microsubjects, books that somehow try to recapitulate the last N-thousand years of human history as viewed through the narrow prism of, say, salt or swearing or codpieces. All of which somehow reminds me [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich cipher crib thoughts&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/20/voynich-cipher-crib-thoughts</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/20/voynich-cipher-crib-thoughts#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note on Voynich cipher cribs. Even though I&#8217;ve built up a fairly substantial set of (what I think are) reasonably pragmatic deductions about how Voynichese works, actually finding any way to use those to get at the rest has (perhaps unsurprisingly) proved difficult. To recap, I suspect that&#8230; &#8220;4o&#8221; steganographically codes for &#8220;lo&#8221; (and perhaps [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Just a quick note on Voynich cipher cribs.
Even though I&#8217;ve built up a fairly substantial set of (what I think are) reasonably pragmatic deductions about how Voynichese works, actually finding any way to use those to get at the rest has (perhaps unsurprisingly) proved difficult. To recap, I suspect that&#8230;

&#8220;4o&#8221; steganographically codes for &#8220;lo&#8221; (and perhaps &#8220;la&#8221; as [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Leonardo&#8217;s telescope&#8230;??!?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/13/leonardos-telescope</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/13/leonardos-telescope#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Giancarlo Truffa recently posted a link to the HASTRO-L mailing list that contains a mention of a surprising claim that Leonardo da Vinci apparently designed a telescope:- On page 59(b) of Leonardo’s Codex Atlanticus appears this drawing. Bülent Atalay proposed in 2005 that it is Leonardo’s “telescope”. The page also contains a “study of light reflection [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Giancarlo Truffa recently posted a link to the HASTRO-L mailing list that contains a mention of a surprising claim that Leonardo da Vinci apparently designed a telescope:-
On page 59(b) of Leonardo’s Codex Atlanticus appears this drawing. Bülent Atalay proposed in 2005 that it is Leonardo’s “telescope”. The page also contains a “study of light reflection of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich filigree?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/07/10/voynich-filigree</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/07/10/voynich-filigree#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filigree]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An intriguing email just arrived on Cipher Mysteries&#8217; virtual doormat: recent blog subscriber Anna Castriota (thanks for writing, Anna!) asks whether I think there is any sign of filigree in the Voynich Manuscript. Of course, as per normal with the VMs, the answer is a &#8220;tentative maybe&#8221;. There are good grounds for believing that its author had [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[An intriguing email just arrived on Cipher Mysteries&#8217; virtual doormat: recent blog subscriber Anna Castriota (thanks for writing, Anna!) asks whether I think there is any sign of filigree in the Voynich Manuscript.
Of course, as per normal with the VMs, the answer is a &#8220;tentative maybe&#8221;. There are good grounds for believing that its author had been [...]]]></content:encoded>
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