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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Edith Sherwood</title>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Book That Can&#8217;t Be Read&#8221; Voynich documentary&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/02/21/review-of-the-book-that-cant-be-read-voynich-documentary</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/02/21/review-of-the-book-that-cant-be-read-voynich-documentary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Kelley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just watched the National Geographic / Naked Science documentary on the Voynich Manuscript, courtesy of a Stateside friend (thanks!). Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will already know how my review of it is supposed to go &#8211; &#8216;that, despite a few inaccuracies, it was great to see the Voynich Manuscript being brought to a popular audience&#8216;. But actually, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just watched the National Geographic / Naked Science documentary on the Voynich Manuscript, courtesy of a Stateside friend (thanks!). Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will already know how my review of it is supposed to go &#8211; &#8216;that, despite a few inaccuracies, it was great to see the Voynich Manuscript being brought to a popular audience&#8216;.
But actually, the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Codes on film!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/11/codes-on-film</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/11/codes-on-film#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beale Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ciphers in Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that there will always be films based around codes because they give screenwriters such an &#8220;easy in&#8221;. Just saying &#8220;code&#8221; conjures up&#8230; Dark secrets (e.g. heresy undermining The Church, free energy undermining The Market, occult powers, any old stuff really) Powerful interests (usually multiple conspiracies fighting each other behind the scenes for control [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I think that there will always be films based around codes because they give screenwriters such an &#8220;easy in&#8221;. Just saying &#8220;code&#8221; conjures up&#8230;

Dark secrets (e.g. heresy undermining The Church, free energy undermining The Market, occult powers, any old stuff really)
Powerful interests (usually multiple conspiracies fighting each other behind the scenes for control of &#8216;The [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Chaocipher got Slashdotted!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/06/the-chaocipher-got-slashdotted</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/06/the-chaocipher-got-slashdotted#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chaocipher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chaos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chaos theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moshe Rubin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=3175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is a strange thing, a virtual photographer&#8217;s jacket crammed with countless pockets of enthusiasts. For example, you beautiful cipher mysteries fans circulate within one bijou (but nicely-appointed) pocket, while the massed legions of Slashdot fans have a Tardis-style hyperzoom lens pocket all of their own. But&#8230; what would happen if these two worlds collided? A chance to find [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Internet is a strange thing, a virtual photographer&#8217;s jacket crammed with countless pockets of enthusiasts. For example, you beautiful cipher mysteries fans circulate within one bijou (but nicely-appointed) pocket, while the massed legions of Slashdot fans have a Tardis-style hyperzoom lens pocket all of their own. But&#8230; what would happen if these two worlds collided?
A chance to find out [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Edith Sherwood on the Vinland Map dating&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/13/edith-sherwood-on-the-vinland-map-dating</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/13/edith-sherwood-on-the-vinland-map-dating#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vinland Map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood very kindly left an interesting comment on my &#8220;Voynich Manuscript &#8211; the State of Play&#8221; post, which I thought was far too good to leave dangling in a mere margin. She wrote:- If you read the 14C dating of the Vinland Map by the U of Arizona, you will find that they calculate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood very kindly left an interesting comment on my &#8220;Voynich Manuscript &#8211; the State of Play&#8221; post, which I thought was far too good to leave dangling in a mere margin. She wrote:-
If you read the 14C dating of the Vinland Map by the U of Arizona, you will find that they calculate the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>First Voynich clues from Austria&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/03/first-voynich-clues-from-austria</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/03/first-voynich-clues-from-austria#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cicco Simonetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vinland Map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve Ekwall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been an interesting day: Edith Sherwood&#8217;s Voynich website got Slashdotted &#8211; given that Cipher Mysteries picked up 4900 visitors from that tsunami of geeky clicks, edithsherwood.com itself must have had (say) 30000 or more. And then (just now), ORF released a teaser press release for next week&#8217;s &#8221;DAS VOYNICH-RÄTSEL&#8221; documentary to their (German-language) website. So, the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been an interesting day: Edith Sherwood&#8217;s Voynich website got Slashdotted &#8211; given that Cipher Mysteries picked up 4900 visitors from that tsunami of geeky clicks, edithsherwood.com itself must have had (say) 30000 or more.
And then (just now), ORF released a teaser press release for next week&#8217;s &#8221;DAS VOYNICH-RÄTSEL&#8221; documentary to their (German-language) website. So, the real big [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Por le bon Simon Sint&#8230; what?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/23/por-le-bon-simon-sint-what</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/23/por-le-bon-simon-sint-what#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick Voynich Manuscript palaeographic puzzle for you. A couple of months ago, I discussed Edith Sherwood&#8217;s suggestion that the third letter in the piece of marginalia on f116v was a Florentine &#8220;x&#8221;, as per Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s quasi-shorthand. I also proposed that the topmost line there might have read &#8220;por le bon simon s&#8230;&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick Voynich Manuscript palaeographic puzzle for you. A couple of months ago, I discussed Edith Sherwood&#8217;s suggestion that the third letter in the piece of marginalia on f116v was a Florentine &#8220;x&#8221;, as per Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s quasi-shorthand. I also proposed that the topmost line there might have read &#8220;por le bon simon s&#8230;&#8221;
Going [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mercantesca, Leonardo, and the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/22/mercantesca-leonardo-and-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/22/mercantesca-leonardo-and-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Augusto Buonafalce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new day dawns, bringing with it a nice email from Augusto Buonafalce in response to my post on Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s &#8216;x&#8217;-like abbreviation for &#8216;ver&#8216; (as recently mentioned by Edith Sherwood). Augusto points out that if you remove the plain diagonal line in the reflected version, what remains appears to be similar to a &#8216;b&#8217;&#8230; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A new day dawns, bringing with it a nice email from Augusto Buonafalce in response to my post on Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s &#8216;x&#8217;-like abbreviation for &#8216;ver&#8216; (as recently mentioned by Edith Sherwood).

Augusto points out that if you remove the plain diagonal line in the reflected version, what remains appears to be similar to a &#8216;b&#8217;&#8230; but [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Edith Sherwood&#8217;s anagram cipher&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/17/edith-sherwoods-anagram-cipher</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/17/edith-sherwoods-anagram-cipher#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Brumbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bacon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new day brings a new Google Adwords campaign from Edith Sherwood (Edith, please just email me instead, it&#8217;ll get the word out far quicker), though this time not promoting another angle on her Leonardo-made-the-Voynich-Manuscript hypothesis&#8230; but rather a transposition cipher Voynichese hypothesis. Specifically, she proposes that the Voynich Manuscript may well be Italian written in a simple [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A new day brings a new Google Adwords campaign from Edith Sherwood (Edith, please just email me instead, it&#8217;ll get the word out far quicker), though this time not promoting another angle on her Leonardo-made-the-Voynich-Manuscript hypothesis&#8230; but rather a transposition cipher Voynichese hypothesis. Specifically, she proposes that the Voynich Manuscript may well be Italian written in a simple [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Voynich &#8220;Apollo&#8221; sun&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/22/the-voynich-apollo-sun</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/22/the-voynich-apollo-sun#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apollo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f67r1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f68v1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f69r]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood recently flagged the &#8220;sun-face&#8221; at the middle of f68v1 as being a representation of Apollo, and that this &#8220;could indicate an association with Roman mythology&#8220;. Certainly, the face is tilted slightly upward and is linked with the sun, both features you might (naively, iconologically) expect to point to Apollo. If only Voynich research [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood recently flagged the &#8220;sun-face&#8221; at the middle of f68v1 as being a representation of Apollo, and that this &#8220;could indicate an association with Roman mythology&#8220;. Certainly, the face is tilted slightly upward and is linked with the sun, both features you might (naively, iconologically) expect to point to Apollo. If only Voynich research [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Leonardo + Voynich Ms + Tarot article&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/20/new-leonardo-voynich-ms-tarot-article</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/20/new-leonardo-voynich-ms-tarot-article#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dante]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visconti-Sforza Tarot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood, everyone&#8217;s favourite Leonardo-wrote-the-Voynich-so-he-did theorist, has posted up an extensive (and fascinating) new article focusing mainly on the depictions of the sun, moon and stars in the Voynich Manuscript: the starting point of her journey is the striking similarity between suns and moons in the VMs&#8217; &#8221;astronomical&#8221; Quire 9 and a sun/moon pair on a particular Afro-Portuguese ivory horn [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood, everyone&#8217;s favourite Leonardo-wrote-the-Voynich-so-he-did theorist, has posted up an extensive (and fascinating) new article focusing mainly on the depictions of the sun, moon and stars in the Voynich Manuscript: the starting point of her journey is the striking similarity between suns and moons in the VMs&#8217; &#8221;astronomical&#8221; Quire 9 and a sun/moon pair on a particular Afro-Portuguese ivory horn [...]]]></content:encoded>
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