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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Athanasius Kircher</title>
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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>
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				<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf II]]></category>
		<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>Other Kinner letters&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/26/other-kinner-letters</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/26/other-kinner-letters#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athanasius Kircher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Marcus Marci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though the Dean at All Saints in the Citadel of Prague was one of the earliest people to mention the Voynich Manuscript (in two letters to his old friend Athanasius Kircher), poor old Godefridus (Gottfried) Aloysius Kinner of Löwenthurn hasn&#8217;t really featured much in the discussion so far. In Kinner&#8217;s letter dated 4th January 1666, he mentions to Kircher that their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Though the Dean at All Saints in the Citadel of Prague was one of the earliest people to mention the Voynich Manuscript (in two letters to his old friend Athanasius Kircher), poor old Godefridus (Gottfried) Aloysius Kinner of Löwenthurn hasn&#8217;t really featured much in the discussion so far.
In Kinner&#8217;s letter dated 4th January 1666, he mentions to Kircher that their mutual [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Micky Bet Voynich piece, now in English (sort of)&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/20/micky-bet-voynich-piece-now-in-english-sort-of</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/20/micky-bet-voynich-piece-now-in-english-sort-of#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athanasius Kircher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Kraus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Marcus Marci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Micky Bet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occulto TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Much as I enjoyed watching Micky Bet covering the Voynich Manuscript, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder how much better it would be had it had a slightly funkier script. So (courtesy of the kind people at Overstream) I added my own captions. Enjoy! (If you can&#8217;t see this in your browser or email client, here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Much as I enjoyed watching Micky Bet covering the Voynich Manuscript, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder how much better it would be had it had a slightly funkier script. So (courtesy of the kind people at Overstream) I added my own captions. Enjoy!  
(If you can&#8217;t see this in your browser or email client, here&#8217;s [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Father Castell and &#8220;The Voynich Club&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/10/10/father-castell-and-the-voynich-club</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/10/10/father-castell-and-the-voynich-club#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athanasius Kircher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[German fans of Pater Castell and of the Voynich Manuscript have a treat in store coming up, with the episode due to be aired on 5th November 2009 at 20:15 called &#8220;Das Voynich Manuskript&#8220; (hopefully you can translate that from the German). Here&#8217;s my rough translation of the programme blurb:- 16-year-old Ralf Hoffmann is found dead at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[German fans of Pater Castell and of the Voynich Manuscript have a treat in store coming up, with the episode due to be aired on 5th November 2009 at 20:15 called &#8220;Das Voynich Manuskript&#8220; (hopefully you can translate that from the German).
Here&#8217;s my rough translation of the programme blurb:-
16-year-old Ralf Hoffmann is found dead at Athanasius Kircher [...]]]></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>Baptized magnets &amp; unspeakable imprecations&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/12/28/baptized-magnets-unspeakable-imprecations</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/12/28/baptized-magnets-unspeakable-imprecations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athanasius Kircher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eileen Reeves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikola Tesla]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And so up pops a delightful article by Eileen Reeves, who Cipher Mysteries regulars may remember as the author of &#8220;Galileo&#8217;s Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror&#8221;. Her paper, called &#8220;Of Language and the Lodestone&#8221;, covers a peculiarly Renaissance phenomenon: baptizing magnets with holy water and unholy words (nomina barbara, which Reeves summarizes as &#8220;foreign utterances whose [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[And so up pops a delightful article by Eileen Reeves, who Cipher Mysteries regulars may remember as the author of &#8220;Galileo&#8217;s Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror&#8221;. Her paper, called &#8220;Of Language and the Lodestone&#8221;, covers a peculiarly Renaissance phenomenon: baptizing magnets with holy water and unholy words (nomina barbara, which Reeves summarizes as &#8220;foreign utterances whose [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Philip Neal strikes again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/22/philip-neal-strikes-again</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/22/philip-neal-strikes-again#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athanasius Kircher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Neal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not content with having given us fantastic English translations of all the key 17th century VMs-related documents, my old friend Philip Neal has found a new VMs-related letter. Sensibly, he was looking in the Kircher correspondence archives when he found a new letter by Godefridus Kinner to Kircher [recto and verso]: more usefully, here are links to his transcription, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Not content with having given us fantastic English translations of all the key 17th century VMs-related documents, my old friend Philip Neal has found a new VMs-related letter.
Sensibly, he was looking in the Kircher correspondence archives when he found a new letter by Godefridus Kinner to Kircher [recto and verso]: more usefully, here are links to his transcription, translation [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Jesuit libraries and archives&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/19/jesuit-libraries-and-archives</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/19/jesuit-libraries-and-archives#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrolabes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athanasius Kircher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cesky Krumlov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georg Baresch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacobus de Tepenecz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Clavius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francois de Aguilon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ismael Boulliau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marin Mersenne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peiresc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Paul Rubens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republic of Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Hatch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from Philip Neal&#8217;s translations, I wondered to myself: what might be lurking in Jesuit archives (specifically to do with Jacobus de Tepenecz / Sinapius)? And so I thought I&#8217;d have a quick snoop&#8230; For Jesuitica in general, sjweb.info has a useful list of Jesuit archives, of which the big three are (1) Georgetown University&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Following on from Philip Neal&#8217;s translations, I wondered to myself: what might be lurking in Jesuit archives (specifically to do with Jacobus de Tepenecz / Sinapius)? And so I thought I&#8217;d have a quick snoop&#8230;
For Jesuitica in general, sjweb.info has a useful list of Jesuit archives, of which the big three are (1) Georgetown University&#8217;s numerous [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>New translations&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/17/new-translations</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/17/new-translations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:58:48 +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[Jan Hurych]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Marcus Marci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jorge Stolfi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tycho Brahe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heliotropic plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paula Findlen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Neal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in May this year, I suggested to my friend Philip Neal that a really useful Voynich research thing he could do would be to translate the passages relating to Jacobus Tepenecz (Sinapius) that Jorge Stolfi once copied from Schmidl&#8217;s (1754) Historiæ Societatis Jesu Provinciæ Bohemiæ (though Stolfi omitted to the section III 75 concerning Melnik) from Latin. The documentation [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Back in May this year, I suggested to my friend Philip Neal that a really useful Voynich research thing he could do would be to translate the passages relating to Jacobus Tepenecz (Sinapius) that Jorge Stolfi once copied from Schmidl&#8217;s (1754) Historiæ Societatis Jesu Provinciæ Bohemiæ (though Stolfi omitted to the section III 75 concerning Melnik) from Latin. The documentation [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Pseudo-science and The Curse of the Voynich&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/13/pseudo-science-and-the-curse-of-the-voynich</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/13/pseudo-science-and-the-curse-of-the-voynich#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athanasius Kircher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tiltman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonell Strong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Klaus Schmeh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open kimono]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A German Voynich article by Klaus Schmeh just pinged on the Cipher Mysteries radar screen: the ten-second summary is that in an interesting mix of observations and opinions, Schmeh clearly enjoys playing the skeptic trump card whenever he can (though he still fails to win the hand). In some ways, Schmeh&#8217;s bias is no bad thing at all: authors like [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A German Voynich article by Klaus Schmeh just pinged on the Cipher Mysteries radar screen: the ten-second summary is that in an interesting mix of observations and opinions, Schmeh clearly enjoys playing the skeptic trump card whenever he can (though he still fails to win the hand).
In some ways, Schmeh&#8217;s bias is no bad thing at all: authors like Rugg [...]]]></content:encoded>
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