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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Nick Pelling</title>
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		<title>London Rare Books School 2012 &#8211; including a session on historical ciphers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/01/30/london-rare-books-school-2012-including-a-session-on-historical-ciphers</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shorthand]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just so you know, I&#8217;ll be contributing a session to the London Rare Books School 2012, which is a yearly study week (this year running from 25th June to 6th July 2012) held at the University of London around Senate House, and intended to broaden participants&#8217; exposure to the widely varied aspects of the history [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Just so you know, I&#8217;ll be contributing a session to the London Rare Books School 2012, which is a yearly study week (this year running from 25th June to 6th July 2012) held at the University of London around Senate House, and intended to broaden participants&#8217; exposure to the widely varied aspects of the history [...]]]></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>
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				<category><![CDATA[Adam McLean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copernicus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
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		<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 Voynich Cipher for code-breakers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/06/the-voynich-cipher-for-code-breakers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/06/the-voynich-cipher-for-code-breakers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though (as was apparent from the rapid social media take-up of yesterday&#8217;s XKCD webcomic) the Voynich Manuscript is now firmly wedged in the cultural mind, sadly the level of debate on it is still stuck circa 1977 &#8211; and if anything, Gordon Rugg&#8217;s foolish &#8220;hoax&#8221; claims have helped to keep it there. But it is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Though (as was apparent from the rapid social media take-up of yesterday&#8217;s XKCD webcomic) the Voynich Manuscript is now firmly wedged in the cultural mind, sadly the level of debate on it is still stuck circa 1977 &#8211; and if anything, Gordon Rugg&#8217;s foolish &#8220;hoax&#8221; claims have helped to keep it there.
But it is demonstrably [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Vellum reasoning chain&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/13/vellum-reasoning-chain</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/13/vellum-reasoning-chain#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen recently commented that much of the codicological reasoning presented on my Voynich codicology page fails to satisfactorily differentiate between observation, hypothesis, reasoning, and fact. At the same time, Glen Claston has also set about trying to pin down key facts about the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s codicology (though taking his own angle on the evidence): [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen recently commented that much of the codicological reasoning presented on my Voynich codicology page fails to satisfactorily differentiate between observation, hypothesis, reasoning, and fact. At the same time, Glen Claston has also set about trying to pin down key facts about the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s codicology (though taking his own angle on the evidence): [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Temporary email disruption&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/03/temporary-email-disruption</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/03/temporary-email-disruption#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, Just to let you all know that my email address for the next few days will be nickpelling@lavabit.com - my nickpelling.com domain is undergoing temporary maintenance (i.e. it&#8217;s broken). Apologies for any bounced emails etc. Oh well! Cheers, &#8230;.Nick Pelling&#8230;. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ciphermysteries.com%2F2009%2F04%2F03%2Ftemporary-email-disruption'; addthis_title = 'Temporary+email+disruption%26%238230%3B'; addthis_pub [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi everyone,
Just to let you all know that my email address for the next few days will be nickpelling@lavabit.com - my nickpelling.com domain is undergoing temporary maintenance (i.e. it&#8217;s broken). Apologies for any bounced emails etc. Oh well!  
Cheers, &#8230;.Nick Pelling&#8230;.

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		<title>Glen Claston on the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/18/glen-claston-on-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/18/glen-claston-on-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[f42r]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Here's a guest posting from my friend, the well-known Voynich contrarian Glen Claston. Though he originally intended it as a comment to my recent post on Voynich Manuscript Quire 8 [Q8], it actually deserved a whole post to itself. I&#8217;ve lightly edited it to house style, and added a couple of pictures.] Nick asked me to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[[Here's a guest posting from my friend, the well-known Voynich contrarian Glen Claston. Though he originally intended it as a comment to my recent post on Voynich Manuscript Quire 8 [Q8], it actually deserved a whole post to itself. I&#8217;ve lightly edited it to house style, and added a couple of pictures.]
Nick asked me to look [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Voynich Scrabble&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/09/voynich-scrabble</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/09/voynich-scrabble#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jorge Stolfi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Neal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scrabble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ulva]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently bumped into a &#8220;Random Freebie&#8221; from blogger &#8220;Miss Black Pepper&#8221;: apropos of nothing much, she posted up a Voynich Manuscript Scrabble Tile Set, composed of nice little images clipped from the Voynich Manuscript (which she happens to rather like). Of course, this set me wondering what a real Voynich Scrabble would look like. You see, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I recently bumped into a &#8220;Random Freebie&#8221; from blogger &#8220;Miss Black Pepper&#8221;: apropos of nothing much, she posted up a Voynich Manuscript Scrabble Tile Set, composed of nice little images clipped from the Voynich Manuscript (which she happens to rather like).
Of course, this set me wondering what a real Voynich Scrabble would look like. You see, the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>18</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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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/12/08/review-of-the-curse-of-the-voynich</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/12/08/review-of-the-curse-of-the-voynich#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary D'Imperio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Ekwall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose this is the review I&#8217;ve spent two years steeling myself for. No matter what book critics may say, reviewing other people&#8217;s books is an easy word-game to play (typically revolving around inserting themselves into the commentary): whereas putting your own writing under the same spotlight is something closer to therapy. What, with the benefit [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I suppose this is the review I&#8217;ve spent two years steeling myself for. No matter what book critics may say, reviewing other people&#8217;s books is an easy word-game to play (typically revolving around inserting themselves into the commentary): whereas putting your own writing under the same spotlight is something closer to therapy. What, with the benefit [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>113</slash:comments>
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		<title>Juan Roget Bibliography now online&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/26/juan-roget-bibliography-now-online</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/26/juan-roget-bibliography-now-online#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jose Maria Simon de Guilleuma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from my September 2008 article in History Today, I&#8217;ve just posted up an online Juan Roget bibliography listing the current set of primary, secondary, and tertiary references to Girolamo Sirtori&#8217;s claim to have met the &#8220;first inventor&#8221; of the telescope in Gerona. While my article received a lot of positive attention from the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Following on from my September 2008 article in History Today, I&#8217;ve just posted up an online Juan Roget bibliography listing the current set of primary, secondary, and tertiary references to Girolamo Sirtori&#8217;s claim to have met the &#8220;first inventor&#8221; of the telescope in Gerona.
While my article received a lot of positive attention from the Spanish [...]]]></content:encoded>
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