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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Lynn Thorndike</title>
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		<title>&#8220;The Voynich Tattoo&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/10/21/the-voynich-tattoo</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<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>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>Voynich Ms Reading List Recommendations&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/25/voynich-ms-reading-list-recommendations</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/25/voynich-ms-reading-list-recommendations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Augusto Buonafalce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary D'Imperio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brunelleschi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caterina Sforza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Prager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isabella Cortese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mariano Taccola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paolo Preto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrizia Catellani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Eamon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a comment to a recent post on Alberti &#38; Averlino, &#8216;infinitii&#8217; asks what my recommendations would be for a Voynich Manuscript reading list&#8230; a deceptively hard question. Apart from the direct literature on the subject (Mary D&#8217;Imperio&#8217;s &#8220;An Elegant Enigma&#8221;, my &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221;, and perhaps even Kennedy &#38; Churchill&#8217;s &#8220;The Voynich [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a comment to a recent post on Alberti &amp; Averlino, &#8216;infinitii&#8217; asks what my recommendations would be for a Voynich Manuscript reading list&#8230; a deceptively hard question.
Apart from the direct literature on the subject (Mary D&#8217;Imperio&#8217;s &#8220;An Elegant Enigma&#8221;, my &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221;, and perhaps even Kennedy &amp; Churchill&#8217;s &#8220;The Voynich Manuscript&#8221;), [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;Secret Knowledge&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/03/review-of-secret-knowledge</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/03/review-of-secret-knowledge#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Falco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hockney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2001, David Hockney proposed a radical new take on art history: that around 1430, artists began to use a camera obscura arrangement to focus images onto a canvas. This was to help them attain a level of draughting accuracy not available to artists who were simply &#8220;eyeballing&#8221; (Hockney&#8217;s term) a scene. The key paintings he employs as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Back in 2001, David Hockney proposed a radical new take on art history: that around 1430, artists began to use a camera obscura arrangement to focus images onto a canvas. This was to help them attain a level of draughting accuracy not available to artists who were simply &#8220;eyeballing&#8221; (Hockney&#8217;s term) a scene. The key paintings he employs as [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Top 10 Voynich Manuscript theories, decoded&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/08/12/top-10-voynich-manuscript-theories-decoded</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/08/12/top-10-voynich-manuscript-theories-decoded#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Symmetrical and repetitive prey behaviour is the key tool exploited by hunter gatherers: and so it goes with Voynich Manuscript websites. Once you&#8217;ve seen the same damaged pattern a few times, the shared wonky rationale behind it is usually fairly transparent. And so here is a suggested critical reader for those fruity (but decidedly wobbly) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Symmetrical and repetitive prey behaviour is the key tool exploited by hunter gatherers: and so it goes with Voynich Manuscript websites. Once you&#8217;ve seen the same damaged pattern a few times, the shared wonky rationale behind it is usually fairly transparent.
And so here is a suggested critical reader for those fruity (but decidedly wobbly) jellies [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &quot;Inventing The Flat Earth&quot;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/07/31/review-of-inventing-the-flat-earth</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/07/31/review-of-inventing-the-flat-earth#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telescope History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a mystery: when there is abundant evidence that people in the Middle Ages knew for sure that the earth was basically spherical, why has the myth persisted until the late 20th century that Columbus had to argue against Flat Earth proponents to gain backing for his voyage? And where did this whole mythology come [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a mystery: when there is abundant evidence that people in the Middle Ages knew for sure that the earth was basically spherical, why has the myth persisted until the late 20th century that Columbus had to argue against Flat Earth proponents to gain backing for his voyage? And where did this whole mythology come [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Lynn Thorndike&#8217;s papers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/07/29/lynn-thorndikes-papers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/07/29/lynn-thorndikes-papers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, I think it was inevitable that a determinedly analytical mind like Lynn Thorndike&#8216;s would have left a well-organized archival record: and so it was that he and his successors left his extensive collection of papers to the University of Columbia, the last place he worked as a History Professor. The archival finding aid went [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Somehow, I think it was inevitable that a determinedly analytical mind like Lynn Thorndike&#8216;s would have left a well-organized archival record: and so it was that he and his successors left his extensive collection of papers to the University of Columbia, the last place he worked as a History Professor. The archival finding aid went [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&quot;The Montefeltro Conspiracy&quot; arrives&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/22/the-montefeltro-conspiracy-arrives</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/22/the-montefeltro-conspiracy-arrives#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cicco Simonetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cipher Non-Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A copy of Marcello Simonetta&#8217;s new book &#8220;The Montefeltro Conspiracy&#8221; (2008) has just arrived in the post (I first mentioned it here). I must admit to being a bit excited, as he covers a lot of ground I&#8217;d had to wade slowly through in the Italian sources when writing my own book &#8211; Cicco Simonetta, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A copy of Marcello Simonetta&#8217;s new book &#8220;The Montefeltro Conspiracy&#8221; (2008) has just arrived in the post (I first mentioned it here). I must admit to being a bit excited, as he covers a lot of ground I&#8217;d had to wade slowly through in the Italian sources when writing my own book &#8211; Cicco Simonetta, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Thorndike on the Voynich Manuscript!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/05/thorndike-on-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/05/thorndike-on-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cipher Non-Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magic Circles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bacon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve often wondered what Lynn Thorndike thought of the Voynich Manuscript: after all, he (his first name came from the town of Lynn, Massachusetts) lived from 1882 to 1965, and continued to publish long after his retirement in 1950, and so was active before, during and after the 1920s when Wilfrid Voynich&#8217;s cipher manuscript mania/hype [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve often wondered what Lynn Thorndike thought of the Voynich Manuscript: after all, he (his first name came from the town of Lynn, Massachusetts) lived from 1882 to 1965, and continued to publish long after his retirement in 1950, and so was active before, during and after the 1920s when Wilfrid Voynich&#8217;s cipher manuscript mania/hype [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Florentine Renaissance &amp; evolution&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/05/16/the-florentine-renaissance-evolution</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/05/16/the-florentine-renaissance-evolution#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I&#8217;ll admit it: people who talk about the Renaissance as a coherent historical phenomenon get on my nerves. There were numerous strands of thought at the time, all vying for the oxygen of attention, all trying to supplant medieval scholasticism: but arguably the two biggest new kids on the block circa 1400 were Renaissance [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[OK, I&#8217;ll admit it: people who talk about the Renaissance as a coherent historical phenomenon get on my nerves. There were numerous strands of thought at the time, all vying for the oxygen of attention, all trying to supplant medieval scholasticism: but arguably the two biggest new kids on the block circa 1400 were Renaissance [...]]]></content:encoded>
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