Cipher Mysteries posts in the ‘Jose Maria Simon de Guilleuma’ category




Juan Roget Bibliography now online…

Posted by nickpelling on Nov 26th, 2008

Following on from my September 2008 article in History Today, I’ve just posted up an online Juan Roget bibliography listing the current set of primary, secondary, and tertiary references to Girolamo Sirtori’s claim to have met the “first inventor” of the telescope in Gerona.
While my article received a lot of positive attention from the Spanish [...] Read more »

“History Today” Spanish telescope article…

Posted by nickpelling on Sep 15th, 2008

At the beginning of this year, I became interested in the mystery surrounding the invention of the telescope, spurred by Richard SantaColoma’s outrageous claims that the enciphered Voynich Manuscript contained images of telescopes disguised as strange tiered albarelli. But really, who did invent the telescope? Where did it come from?
At first, I thought the answer [...] Read more »