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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>
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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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		<title>Voynich magic circles (Part 1)&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/03/23/voynich-magic-circles-part-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/03/23/voynich-magic-circles-part-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magic Circles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Kieckhefer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just collecting my thoughts after an exhilarating lecture by William Kiesel (the publisher and editor of Ouroboros Press) on magic circles at Treadwell&#8217;s in Covent Garden (Christina&#8217;s post-lecture blog entry is here). William presented a long series of images of magic circles (manuscripts diagrams, woodcuts, paintings, etc) from the Middle Ages right through to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just collecting my thoughts after an exhilarating lecture by William Kiesel (the publisher and editor of Ouroboros Press) on magic circles at Treadwell&#8217;s in Covent Garden (Christina&#8217;s post-lecture blog entry is here). William presented a long series of images of magic circles (manuscripts diagrams, woodcuts, paintings, etc) from the Middle Ages right through to [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Dots for vowels, revisited&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/02/09/dots-for-vowels-revisited</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/02/09/dots-for-vowels-revisited#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One very early cipher involved replacing the vowels with dots. In his &#8220;Codes and Ciphers&#8221; (1939/1949) p.15, Alexander d&#8217;Agapeyeff asserts that this was a &#8220;Benedictine tradition&#8221;, in that the Benedictine order of monks (of which Trithemius was later an Abbot) had long used it as a cipher. The first direct mention we have of it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One very early cipher involved replacing the vowels with dots. In his &#8220;Codes and Ciphers&#8221; (1939/1949) p.15, Alexander d&#8217;Agapeyeff asserts that this was a &#8220;Benedictine tradition&#8221;, in that the Benedictine order of monks (of which Trithemius was later an Abbot) had long used it as a cipher. The first direct mention we have of it [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Magic circles at Treadwell&#8217;s&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2007/12/20/magic-circles-at-treadwells</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2007/12/20/magic-circles-at-treadwells#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone of a Voynichological leaning who is near London on Wednesday 19th March should consider popping by Treadwell&#8217;s in Covent Garden for a lecture by William Kiesel on &#8220;The Circle of Arte &#8211; Magic Circles in the Western Grimoire Tradition&#8221; (Ouroboros Press). It&#8217;s £5 (though reserve a place earlier if you can, it&#8217;s only fair): [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Anyone of a Voynichological leaning who is near London on Wednesday 19th March should consider popping by Treadwell&#8217;s in Covent Garden for a lecture by William Kiesel on &#8220;The Circle of Arte &#8211; Magic Circles in the Western Grimoire Tradition&#8221; (Ouroboros Press). It&#8217;s £5 (though reserve a place earlier if you can, it&#8217;s only fair): [...]]]></content:encoded>
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