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		<title>J.K.Rowling apologizes for Voynich Manuscript, just a &#8220;viral marketing prank&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/11/12/j-k-rowling-apologizes-for-voynich-manuscript-just-a-viral-marketing-prank</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Reeds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[London, UK, 11 Nov 2010. In a surprising twist worthy of Voldemort himself, A-list children&#8217;s author and philanthropist J.K.Rowling has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the popular Internet cipher mystery meme &#8220;The Voynich Manuscript&#8221;. She now says it all was a 1990 publicity stunt for an early release of &#8220;Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone&#8221;, which was &#8211; much [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[London, UK, 11 Nov 2010. In a surprising twist worthy of Voldemort himself, A-list children&#8217;s author and philanthropist J.K.Rowling has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the popular Internet cipher mystery meme &#8220;The Voynich Manuscript&#8221;.
She now says it all was a 1990 publicity stunt for an early release of &#8220;Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone&#8221;, which was &#8211; much like [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Roger Bacon &amp; the Voynich Manuscript, revisited&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/28/roger-bacon-the-voynich-manuscript-revisited</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/28/roger-bacon-the-voynich-manuscript-revisited#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athanasius Kircher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georg Baresch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacobus de Tepenecz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Marcus Marci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bacon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Wilfrid Voynich bought his (now eponymous) manuscript in 1912, it was accompanied by a 1665 letter from Johannes Marcus Marci to Athanasius Kircher. In that, Marci noted three things that Raphael Mnishovsky (King Ferdinand III&#8217;s Czech language tutor) had told him about the strange artefact:- &#8220;that the said book belonged to Emperor Rudolf&#8220; &#8220;that [Rudolf II] presented 600 ducats [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When Wilfrid Voynich bought his (now eponymous) manuscript in 1912, it was accompanied by a 1665 letter from Johannes Marcus Marci to Athanasius Kircher. In that, Marci noted three things that Raphael Mnishovsky (King Ferdinand III&#8217;s Czech language tutor) had told him about the strange artefact:-

&#8220;that the said book belonged to Emperor Rudolf&#8220;
&#8220;that [Rudolf II] presented 600 ducats to the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/23/nick-pelling-online-radio-interview-with-red-ice-creations#comments</comments>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=2107</guid>
		<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>&#8220;The True Path of Alchemy&#8221; is *not* the VMs&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/30/the-true-path-of-alchemy-is-not-the-vms</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/30/the-true-path-of-alchemy-is-not-the-vms#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jan Hurych]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Neal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafal Prinke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Otakar Zachar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A big tip of the hat to Rafal Prinke: thanks to a swift reply from him last night, I can now say definitively that &#8220;The True Path of Alchemy&#8221; is not the VMs (confirming Rene&#8217;s suspicion), because both still exist independently. And the romanticized 1904 mention of the former by Henry Carrington Bolton that quickened my historical pulse [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A big tip of the hat to Rafal Prinke: thanks to a swift reply from him last night, I can now say definitively that &#8220;The True Path of Alchemy&#8221; is not the VMs (confirming Rene&#8217;s suspicion), because both still exist independently. And the romanticized 1904 mention of the former by Henry Carrington Bolton that quickened my historical pulse [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Earliest archival reference to the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;???</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/29/earliest-archival-reference-to-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/29/earliest-archival-reference-to-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Roman Empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacobus de Tepenecz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Marcus Marci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafal Prinke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A vast constellation of curious books revolves around the hazily uncertain core of the Voynich Manuscript: as with most things, some are outright good, some are just plain bad, while most live in a mixed-up zone in the middle. Henry Carrington Bolton&#8217;s (1904) &#8221; The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II&#8221; is a poster-child for that mixed-up [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A vast constellation of curious books revolves around the hazily uncertain core of the Voynich Manuscript: as with most things, some are outright good, some are just plain bad, while most live in a mixed-up zone in the middle.
Henry Carrington Bolton&#8217;s (1904) &#8221; The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II&#8221; is a poster-child for that mixed-up zone [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;Renaissance Faces&#8221; (exhibition)&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/23/review-of-renaissance-faces-exhibition</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/23/review-of-renaissance-faces-exhibition#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rudolf II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For me, there&#8217;s something wonderfully apposite about the &#8220;Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian&#8221; exhibition currently downstairs at the Sainsbury wing of the National Gallery in London. Having just read and reviewed the revised (2006) edition of David Hockney&#8217;s &#8220;Secret Knowledge&#8221; book, the opportunity of looking really up close at some of the key pictures on Hockney&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For me, there&#8217;s something wonderfully apposite about the &#8220;Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian&#8221; exhibition currently downstairs at the Sainsbury wing of the National Gallery in London. Having just read and reviewed the revised (2006) edition of David Hockney&#8217;s &#8220;Secret Knowledge&#8221; book, the opportunity of looking really up close at some of the key pictures on Hockney&#8217;s [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Mercurial Emperor&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/03/review-of-the-mercurial-emperor</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/03/review-of-the-mercurial-emperor#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magic Circles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Marshall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Marshall&#8217;s (2006) &#8220;The Mercurial Emperor: The Magic Circle of Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague&#8221; takes a sideways look at everyone&#8217;s favourite mad Holy Roman Emperor, by using those around him as a kind of slightly wonky mirror. The choice of who makes the cut is a bit arbitrary in places: John Dee (who never came close to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Peter Marshall&#8217;s (2006) &#8220;The Mercurial Emperor: The Magic Circle of Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague&#8221; takes a sideways look at everyone&#8217;s favourite mad Holy Roman Emperor, by using those around him as a kind of slightly wonky mirror. The choice of who makes the cut is a bit arbitrary in places: John Dee (who never came close to [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Historical hoaxes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/09/29/historical-hoaxes</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/09/29/historical-hoaxes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vinland Map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alien autopsy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hoax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack the Ripper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Maybrick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Josef Fischer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirsten Seaver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled across a forum discussion comparing the Voynich Manuscript to the &#8220;Maybrick Diary&#8221; (oh, and the Vinland Map, too) inasmuch as they are all high profile documents that have been dubbed fakes or hoaxes. James Maybrick was a Victorian cotton merchant from Liverpool high up the ludicrously long list of people variously accused of being Jack the Ripper, as well [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I recently stumbled across a forum discussion comparing the Voynich Manuscript to the &#8220;Maybrick Diary&#8221; (oh, and the Vinland Map, too) inasmuch as they are all high profile documents that have been dubbed fakes or hoaxes. James Maybrick was a Victorian cotton merchant from Liverpool high up the ludicrously long list of people variously accused of being Jack the Ripper, as well [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;On Tycho&#8217;s Island&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/09/19/review-of-on-tychos-island</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/09/19/review-of-on-tychos-island#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tadeas Hajek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Robert Christianson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People don&#8217;t generally know a lot about Tycho Brahe, which is a shame. In most accounts of the history of astronomy, his bright star tends to get eclipsed by the twin 17th century supernovae of Kepler and Galileo. But scratch the surface of the story, and it&#8217;s really not that simple&#8230; Brahe was a Danish nobleman with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[People don&#8217;t generally know a lot about Tycho Brahe, which is a shame. In most accounts of the history of astronomy, his bright star tends to get eclipsed by the twin 17th century supernovae of Kepler and Galileo. But scratch the surface of the story, and it&#8217;s really not that simple&#8230;
Brahe was a Danish nobleman with a [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&quot;The Alchemy Guild&quot;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/08/02/the-alchemy-guild</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/08/02/the-alchemy-guild#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cesky Krumlov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafal Prinke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf II]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alchemy arguably dates back to Alexandria, and there are many alchemical manuscripts dating through to the 13th and 14th century (though Lynn Thorndike noted that the 15th century was something of a fallow period). However, the modern organization The International Alchemy Guild traces its practical roots back to what was going in 16th century Bohemia, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Alchemy arguably dates back to Alexandria, and there are many alchemical manuscripts dating through to the 13th and 14th century (though Lynn Thorndike noted that the 15th century was something of a fallow period). However, the modern organization The International Alchemy Guild traces its practical roots back to what was going in 16th century Bohemia, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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