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		<title>Well, here&#8217;s where the answer may be found&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/12/17/well-heres-where-the-answer-may-be-found</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/12/17/well-heres-where-the-answer-may-be-found#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Byzantine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcello Simonetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a while, I&#8217;ve had an itch (a Voyn-itch, if you prefer) I couldn&#8217;t work out how to scratch. You see&#8230; about six years ago, I found an old history book digitized on archive.org (if I remember correctly): it related how Francesco Sforza assembled an ongoing ad hoc council of representatives of various city-states surrounding Milan, told [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For a while, I&#8217;ve had an itch (a Voyn-itch, if you prefer) I couldn&#8217;t work out how to scratch.
You see&#8230; about six years ago, I found an old history book digitized on archive.org (if I remember correctly): it related how Francesco Sforza assembled an ongoing ad hoc council of representatives of various city-states surrounding Milan, told them [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;The Voynich Tattoo&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/10/21/the-voynich-tattoo</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/10/21/the-voynich-tattoo#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave McClure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Such a stupid thing for a bright kid to do: pinballing through her mid-teen rebellion, Jena Kyng had wanted to demonstrate some kind of unbranded online tribal allegiance, and ended up with two lines of Voynichese across her lower back (from the end paragraph of page f67r2, as if anyone off-list really cared). Though in many ways, she&#8217;d had [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Such a stupid thing for a bright kid to do: pinballing through her mid-teen rebellion, Jena Kyng had wanted to demonstrate some kind of unbranded online tribal allegiance, and ended up with two lines of Voynichese across her lower back (from the end paragraph of page f67r2, as if anyone off-list really cared). Though in many ways, she&#8217;d had [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Astrolabes, nocturnals and Voynich Manuscript page f57v&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/01/astrolabes-nocturnals-and-voynich-manuscript-page-f57v</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/01/astrolabes-nocturnals-and-voynich-manuscript-page-f57v#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrolabes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magic Circles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Kieckhefer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f57v]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[latitude]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a decade, I&#8217;ve wondered whether any of the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s circular drawings depict astronomical instruments &#8211; for before satnav there was celnav (&#8220;celestial navigation&#8221;). Here&#8217;s a brief guide to three key instrument types from the VMs&#8217; timeframe, and my current thoughts on the enigmatic circular diagram on f57v&#8230; * * * * * * * [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For a decade, I&#8217;ve wondered whether any of the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s circular drawings depict astronomical instruments &#8211; for before satnav there was celnav (&#8220;celestial navigation&#8221;). Here&#8217;s a brief guide to three key instrument types from the VMs&#8217; timeframe, and my current thoughts on the enigmatic circular diagram on f57v&#8230;
* * * * * * *
A key navigational [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Chinese Voynich theories&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/14/chinese-voynich-theories</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/14/chinese-voynich-theories#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 23:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthony Grafton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacques Guy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosicrucianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following a trail of breadcrumbs from my recent post on Johann Adam Schall von Bell, I&#8217;m returning to the issue of whether the VMs could ever have had a Far Eastern origin. To recap, Jacques Guy originally proposed Chinese as a kind of linguistic fou-merde joke on the Voynich research community, only to be unhappily [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Following a trail of breadcrumbs from my recent post on Johann Adam Schall von Bell, I&#8217;m returning to the issue of whether the VMs could ever have had a Far Eastern origin. To recap, Jacques Guy originally proposed Chinese as a kind of linguistic fou-merde joke on the Voynich research community, only to be unhappily [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Happy New Year, and some predictions for 2010&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/29/happy-new-year-and-some-predictions-for-2010</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/29/happy-new-year-and-some-predictions-for-2010#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthony Grafton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Burnett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warburg Institute]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, it&#8217;s time to roll out and dust off the Cipher Mysteries crystal skull crystal ball (no, I didn&#8217;t buy it on eBay, nor did I nick it from the British Museum) to peer dimly ahead to 2010. What will it bring us all? Of course, 2009&#8242;s big news was the radiocarbon dating of four slivers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Once again, it&#8217;s time to roll out and dust off the Cipher Mysteries crystal skull crystal ball (no, I didn&#8217;t buy it on eBay, nor did I nick it from the British Museum) to peer dimly ahead to 2010. What will it bring us all?
Of course, 2009&#8242;s big news was the radiocarbon dating of four slivers of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich Cisioianus cipher crib&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/17/voynich-cisioianus-cipher-crib</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/17/voynich-cisioianus-cipher-crib#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Grove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Herbelin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When is Easter? A simple question, but one with quite a tricky answer: following the decision of the First Council of Nicaea in 325AD, it is the first Sunday after the full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is simplified to be 21st March): hence, Easter can fall anywhere between 22nd March and 25th April. A moment&#8217;s reflection [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When is Easter? A simple question, but one with quite a tricky answer: following the decision of the First Council of Nicaea in 325AD, it is the first Sunday after the full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is simplified to be 21st March): hence, Easter can fall anywhere between 22nd March and 25th April.
A moment&#8217;s reflection should [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>More early modern correspondence sources&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/30/more-early-modern-correspondence-sources</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/30/more-early-modern-correspondence-sources#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthony Grafton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Further to the recent (and much-commented-upon) post on Godefridus Aloysius Kinner&#8217;s correspondence, I had a snoop around to see what other early modern correspondence roadkill I could scrape off the infobahn&#8217;s oh-so-narrow historical lane. The most useful page I found was from the Warburg&#8217;s Scaliger Research Project (kindly established by Professor Anthony Grafton): this contained a long-ish list [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Further to the recent (and much-commented-upon) post on Godefridus Aloysius Kinner&#8217;s correspondence, I had a snoop around to see what other early modern correspondence roadkill I could scrape off the infobahn&#8217;s oh-so-narrow historical lane. The most useful page I found was from the Warburg&#8217;s Scaliger Research Project (kindly established by Professor Anthony Grafton): this contained a long-ish list [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Secret History of That Which Is Secret&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/16/the-secret-history-of-that-which-is-secret</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/16/the-secret-history-of-that-which-is-secret#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carlo Ginzburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you accept the basic notion that the Voynich Manuscript is both (a) very probably a genuine (if perhaps rather convoluted) cipher, and (b) mostly rational, then you run into the issue of what kind of sensible stuff lies beneath &#8211; in other words, its &#8220;secrets&#8221;. All the same, how sure are we that our modern notion of &#8220;secrets&#8221; is anything [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[If you accept the basic notion that the Voynich Manuscript is both (a) very probably a genuine (if perhaps rather convoluted) cipher, and (b) mostly rational, then you run into the issue of what kind of sensible stuff lies beneath &#8211; in other words, its &#8220;secrets&#8221;. All the same, how sure are we that our modern notion of &#8220;secrets&#8221; is anything [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Anthony Grafton article on the Republic of Letters&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/24/anthony-grafton-article-on-the-republic-of-letters</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/24/anthony-grafton-article-on-the-republic-of-letters#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthony Grafton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just saw (via H-ITALY) an announcement for an online peer-reviewed journal from Stanford: We are delighted to announce the publication of a new digital journal, Republics of Letters. This peer-reviewed, open-access publication is dedicated to the study of knowledge, politics, and the arts, from Antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on the early-modern [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I just saw (via H-ITALY) an announcement for an online peer-reviewed journal from Stanford:

We are delighted to announce the publication of a new digital journal, Republics of Letters. This peer-reviewed, open-access publication is dedicated to the study of knowledge, politics, and the arts, from Antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on the early-modern period.

Its [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich Summer Camp, transcript of session #1&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/11/voynich-summer-camp-transcript-of-session-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/11/voynich-summer-camp-transcript-of-session-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Kieckhefer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warburg Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budapest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Grove]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the recent Hungarian Voynich summer camp, I offered to do a couple of IM sessions over Skype, both of which seemed to go down very well. I thought many Cipher Mysteries readers might enjoy going over the transcript, so here it is (lightly edited for house style, as usual, and with after-the-event section dividers to make it not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For the recent Hungarian Voynich summer camp, I offered to do a couple of IM sessions over Skype, both of which seemed to go down very well. I thought many Cipher Mysteries readers might enjoy going over the transcript, so here it is (lightly edited for house style, as usual, and with after-the-event section dividers to make it not [...]]]></content:encoded>
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