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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Owen Gingerich</title>
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		<title>A little more on Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/08/05/a-little-more-on-tadeas-hajek-z-hajku</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Owen Gingerich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nice little thing just arrived in the post: I had contacted the Prague-based Society for the History of Sciences (&#8220;DVT&#8221; = dějiny věd a techniky) to ask how to get hold of a copy of its 2000 monograph on Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku. To my surprise, the DVT&#8217;s Igor Janovský said &#8211; don&#8217;t worry [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A nice little thing just arrived in the post: I had contacted the Prague-based Society for the History of Sciences (&#8220;DVT&#8221; = dějiny věd a techniky) to ask how to get hold of a copy of its 2000 monograph on Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku. To my surprise, the DVT&#8217;s Igor Janovský said &#8211; don&#8217;t worry [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>John Dee&#8217;s &quot;Tuba Veneris&quot;&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was the &#8220;Consecrated Little Book of Black Venus&#8221; really written by John Dee? I first saw this several years back, when I stumbled upon Joseph Peterson&#8217;s transcription of it on the Esoteric Archives website. The link with Dee seemed (and still seems) to me to be spurious: even though he is mentioned right at the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Was the &#8220;Consecrated Little Book of Black Venus&#8221; really written by John Dee? I first saw this several years back, when I stumbled upon Joseph Peterson&#8217;s transcription of it on the Esoteric Archives website.
The link with Dee seemed (and still seems) to me to be spurious: even though he is mentioned right at the start [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &quot;The Book Nobody Read&quot;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/07/25/review-of-the-book-nobody-read</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Arthur Koestler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Telescope Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his 1959 book &#8220;The Sleepwalkers&#8221;, Arthur Koestler painted a rather damning picture of Renaissance European astronomers and scientists, where the only person not sleepwalking was Kepler. As part of the process of tarring everyone else with the same soporific brush, Koestler derided Copernicus&#8217; famous &#8220;De Revolutionibus&#8221; as &#8220;The Book Nobody Read&#8220;. It&#8217;s true that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In his 1959 book &#8220;The Sleepwalkers&#8221;, Arthur Koestler painted a rather damning picture of Renaissance European astronomers and scientists, where the only person not sleepwalking was Kepler. As part of the process of tarring everyone else with the same soporific brush, Koestler derided Copernicus&#8217; famous &#8220;De Revolutionibus&#8221; as &#8220;The Book Nobody Read&#8220;.
It&#8217;s true that only [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>More on Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/07/23/more-on-tadeas-hajek-z-hajku</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Jacobus de Tepenecz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jan Hurych]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Owen Gingerich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted about Rudolf&#8217;s physician before Jacobus de Tepenecz [Sinapius], Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku: and wondered aloud whether he might have bought / owned / sold / annotated the Voynich Manuscript. It&#8217;s a good question: the f17r marginalia seems to have been emended to read &#8220;mattioli&#8230;&#8221; (I believe it originally began &#8220;melhor&#8221;), and Hájek [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I recently posted about Rudolf&#8217;s physician before Jacobus de Tepenecz [Sinapius], Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku: and wondered aloud whether he might have bought / owned / sold / annotated the Voynich Manuscript. It&#8217;s a good question: the f17r marginalia seems to have been emended to read &#8220;mattioli&#8230;&#8221; (I believe it originally began &#8220;melhor&#8221;), and Hájek [...]]]></content:encoded>
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