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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Johannes Trithemius</title>
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		<title>Nick Pelling online radio interview with Red Ice Creations&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/23/nick-pelling-online-radio-interview-with-red-ice-creations</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adam McLean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copernicus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacobus de Tepenecz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Trithemius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just to let you know that a Voynich Manuscript radio interview I gave a few days ago (either download it, or click on the Flash Player play button [half a screen down on the right] to hear it) has just gone live on the Red Ice Creations website. They wanted me to chat about all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Just to let you know that a Voynich Manuscript radio interview I gave a few days ago (either download it, or click on the Flash Player play button [half a screen down on the right] to hear it) has just gone live on the Red Ice Creations website. They wanted me to chat about all [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Voarchadumia &amp; John Dee&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/05/23/the-voarchadumia-john-dee</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/05/23/the-voarchadumia-john-dee#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 14:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adam McLean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athanasius Kircher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Trithemius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aleister Crowley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enochian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pantheo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tobias Churton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time (in 1518), a Venetian called Giovanni Agostino Pantheo put himself into hot water by writing a work on alchemy (the Ars Transmutationis Metallicae). Yet essentially unrepentant, he went on to publish (in 1530) a further book on alchemy called the Voarchadumia Contra Alchimiam: this was largely a reprise of his 1518 book [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Once upon a time (in 1518), a Venetian called Giovanni Agostino Pantheo put himself into hot water by writing a work on alchemy (the Ars Transmutationis Metallicae). Yet essentially unrepentant, he went on to publish (in 1530) a further book on alchemy called the Voarchadumia Contra Alchimiam: this was largely a reprise of his 1518 book [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What is a ciphertext?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/13/what-is-a-ciphertext</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/13/what-is-a-ciphertext#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Trithemius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ciphertext]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loucherbem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pig latin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[substitution cipher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transposition cipher]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Essentially, a ciphertext is a piece of text where the individual letters have been transformed according to a rule system &#8211; substitution cipher rules replace the shape of the letters (as if you had just changed the font), while transposition cipher rules manipulate the order of the letters. THIS IS A CIPHER &#8212;&#62; UIKT KT [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Essentially, a ciphertext is a piece of text where the individual letters have been transformed according to a rule system &#8211; substitution cipher rules replace the shape of the letters (as if you had just changed the font), while transposition cipher rules manipulate the order of the letters.
THIS IS A CIPHER &#8212;&gt; UIKT KT B [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>John Dee&#8217;s &quot;Tuba Veneris&quot;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/08/04/john-dees-tuba-veneris</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/08/04/john-dees-tuba-veneris#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carlo Ginzburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Trithemius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Owen Gingerich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warburg Institute]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Was the &#8220;Consecrated Little Book of Black Venus&#8221; really written by John Dee? I first saw this several years back, when I stumbled upon Joseph Peterson&#8217;s transcription of it on the Esoteric Archives website. The link with Dee seemed (and still seems) to me to be spurious: even though he is mentioned right at the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Was the &#8220;Consecrated Little Book of Black Venus&#8221; really written by John Dee? I first saw this several years back, when I stumbled upon Joseph Peterson&#8217;s transcription of it on the Esoteric Archives website.
The link with Dee seemed (and still seems) to me to be spurious: even though he is mentioned right at the start [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&quot;Is this feeling an eternal flame?&quot;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/05/17/is-this-feeling-an-eternal-flame</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/05/17/is-this-feeling-an-eternal-flame#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eternal Flame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Trithemius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A quick pop-cultural aside: the song &#8220;Eternal Flame&#8221; was written by hugely successful American songwriter Billy Steinberg with Tom Kelly and Susanna Hoffs (of The Bangles). The inspiration for the song came from an eternal flame seen by Bangles&#8217; bass-player Michael Steele burning at Gracelands in Elvis Presley&#8217;s memory, as well as from one at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A quick pop-cultural aside: the song &#8220;Eternal Flame&#8221; was written by hugely successful American songwriter Billy Steinberg with Tom Kelly and Susanna Hoffs (of The Bangles). The inspiration for the song came from an eternal flame seen by Bangles&#8217; bass-player Michael Steele burning at Gracelands in Elvis Presley&#8217;s memory, as well as from one at [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Golden Dawn Cipher Manuscripts&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/04/15/the-golden-dawn-cipher-manuscripts</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/04/15/the-golden-dawn-cipher-manuscripts#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Golden Dawn Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Trithemius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://79.170.40.180/voynichnews.com/?p=97</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Campbell wrote extensively about the &#8220;Hero&#8217;s Journey&#8221;, his condensation of mythology into the single ur-story (often referred to as the &#8220;monomyth&#8220;)beneath it all. In recent decades, Campbell&#8217;s work was popularized by Chris Vogler in his book &#8220;The Writer&#8217;s Journey&#8221;, that distilled the original 17 stages to a 12-stage / 3-act writing template. All of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Joseph Campbell wrote extensively about the &#8220;Hero&#8217;s Journey&#8221;, his condensation of mythology into the single ur-story (often referred to as the &#8220;monomyth&#8220;)beneath it all. In recent decades, Campbell&#8217;s work was popularized by Chris Vogler in his book &#8220;The Writer&#8217;s Journey&#8221;, that distilled the original 17 stages to a 12-stage / 3-act writing template. All of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Book of Soyga, revisited&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/02/20/the-book-of-soyga-revisited</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/02/20/the-book-of-soyga-revisited#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jim Reeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Trithemius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book of Soyga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Ruiz Zafon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Harkness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elias Ashmole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f2v]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a nice historical detective story, one kicked off by John Dee, Frances Yates&#8216; favourite Elizabethan &#8216;magus&#8217; (though I personally suspect Dee&#8217;s &#8216;magic&#8217; was probably less &#8216;magickal&#8217; than it might appear), when he claimed to have told an angel that his &#8220;great and long desyre hath byn to be hable to read those tables of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a nice historical detective story, one kicked off by John Dee, Frances Yates&#8216; favourite Elizabethan &#8216;magus&#8217; (though I personally suspect Dee&#8217;s &#8216;magic&#8217; was probably less &#8216;magickal&#8217; than it might appear), when he claimed to have told an angel that his &#8220;great and long desyre hath byn to be hable to read those tables of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Dots for vowels, revisited&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/02/09/dots-for-vowels-revisited</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/02/09/dots-for-vowels-revisited#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Trithemius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magic Circles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Kieckhefer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Eamon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amaymon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://79.170.40.180/voynichnews.com/?p=56</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One very early cipher involved replacing the vowels with dots. In his &#8220;Codes and Ciphers&#8221; (1939/1949) p.15, Alexander d&#8217;Agapeyeff asserts that this was a &#8220;Benedictine tradition&#8221;, in that the Benedictine order of monks (of which Trithemius was later an Abbot) had long used it as a cipher. The first direct mention we have of it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One very early cipher involved replacing the vowels with dots. In his &#8220;Codes and Ciphers&#8221; (1939/1949) p.15, Alexander d&#8217;Agapeyeff asserts that this was a &#8220;Benedictine tradition&#8221;, in that the Benedictine order of monks (of which Trithemius was later an Abbot) had long used it as a cipher. The first direct mention we have of it [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Besicles&#8230;?!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2007/12/08/besicles</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2007/12/08/besicles#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Johannes Trithemius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spectacles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just mooching around the web looking for Trithemius-related stuff (as you do), I saw a reference to Renaissance &#8220;telescopes, microscopes and bezicles&#8221; in the first (free) page of Polygraphia and the Renaissance sign: The case of Trithemius, from the Springer journal Neophilologus. I had never heard of &#8220;bezicles&#8221;, so decided to have a sniff around, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Just mooching around the web looking for Trithemius-related stuff (as you do), I saw a reference to Renaissance &#8220;telescopes, microscopes and bezicles&#8221; in the first (free) page of Polygraphia and the Renaissance sign: The case of Trithemius, from the Springer journal Neophilologus. I had never heard of &#8220;bezicles&#8221;, so decided to have a sniff around, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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