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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Astrology</title>
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		<title>Announcing &#8220;The Blitz Ciphers&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/22/announcing-the-blitz-ciphers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/12/22/announcing-the-blitz-ciphers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blitz Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, some new ciphertexts pinged on my Cipher Mysteries radar: the story goes that they had been found just after WWII in wooden boxes concealed in the wall of an East London cellar that German bombing had exposed. Hence I&#8217;ve called them &#8220;The Blitz Ciphers&#8221;, but they&#8217;re probably much older than the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, some new ciphertexts pinged on my Cipher Mysteries radar: the story goes that they had been found just after WWII in wooden boxes concealed in the wall of an East London cellar that German bombing had exposed. Hence I&#8217;ve called them &#8220;The Blitz Ciphers&#8221;, but they&#8217;re probably much older than the [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Micky Bet Voynich piece, now in English (sort of)&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/20/micky-bet-voynich-piece-now-in-english-sort-of</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/20/micky-bet-voynich-piece-now-in-english-sort-of#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athanasius Kircher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Kraus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Marcus Marci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Micky Bet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occulto TV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=2363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Much as I enjoyed watching Micky Bet covering the Voynich Manuscript, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder how much better it would be had it had a slightly funkier script. So (courtesy of the kind people at Overstream) I added my own captions. Enjoy! (If you can&#8217;t see this in your browser or email client, here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Much as I enjoyed watching Micky Bet covering the Voynich Manuscript, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder how much better it would be had it had a slightly funkier script. So (courtesy of the kind people at Overstream) I added my own captions. Enjoy!  
(If you can&#8217;t see this in your browser or email client, here&#8217;s [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Nick Pelling online radio interview with Red Ice Creations&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/23/nick-pelling-online-radio-interview-with-red-ice-creations</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/23/nick-pelling-online-radio-interview-with-red-ice-creations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adam McLean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copernicus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacobus de Tepenecz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Trithemius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=2107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just to let you know that a Voynich Manuscript radio interview I gave a few days ago (either download it, or click on the Flash Player play button [half a screen down on the right] to hear it) has just gone live on the Red Ice Creations website. They wanted me to chat about all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Just to let you know that a Voynich Manuscript radio interview I gave a few days ago (either download it, or click on the Flash Player play button [half a screen down on the right] to hear it) has just gone live on the Red Ice Creations website. They wanted me to chat about all [...]]]></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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=2056</guid>
		<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>&#8220;De Aqua&#8221; Voynich theory on YouTube&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/24/de-aqua-voynich-theory-on-youtube</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/24/de-aqua-voynich-theory-on-youtube#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following six years of arduous research, an unnamed 44-year-old German industrial technician has been trying (unsuccessfully) since 2005 to get his/her Voynich theory &#8220;De Aqua&#8221; published, either as a book or as an article. Frustrated by the lack of progress, last month he/she placed thirty-three sizeable chunks of it onto YouTube. Of course, I fully understand that a busy person [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Following six years of arduous research, an unnamed 44-year-old German industrial technician has been trying (unsuccessfully) since 2005 to get his/her Voynich theory &#8220;De Aqua&#8221; published, either as a book or as an article. Frustrated by the lack of progress, last month he/she placed thirty-three sizeable chunks of it onto YouTube.
Of course, I fully understand that a busy person like [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Per-degree astrology, old and new&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/05/12/per-degree-astrology-old-and-new</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/05/12/per-degree-astrology-old-and-new#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 11:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charubel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dane Rudhyar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marc Edmund Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sephariel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=1451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, it has been suggested that the structure of the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s &#8220;zodiac&#8221; section (where each 30-degree sign has 30 nymphs / 30 stars linked to it) might be encoding some kind of per-degree astrology information. Famously, Steve Ekwall claimed that an &#8220;Excitant Spirit&#8221; had told him the types of star here denoted the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For years, it has been suggested that the structure of the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s &#8220;zodiac&#8221; section (where each 30-degree sign has 30 nymphs / 30 stars linked to it) might be encoding some kind of per-degree astrology information. Famously, Steve Ekwall claimed that an &#8220;Excitant Spirit&#8221; had told him the types of star here denoted the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Glen Claston on binding&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/23/glen-claston-on-binding</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/23/glen-claston-on-binding#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glenclaston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nick: here&#8217;s another full-on guest post from Glen Claston, with a little bit of friendly banter from me in blue&#8230; The different ways some little detail can be viewed is so much of the fun we have with the VMS.  Until supporting [or refuting] information can be found for either view, neither is more valid than [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nick: here&#8217;s another full-on guest post from Glen Claston, with a little bit of friendly banter from me in blue&#8230;
The different ways some little detail can be viewed is so much of the fun we have with the VMS.  Until supporting [or refuting] information can be found for either view, neither is more valid than the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Scorpio &#8220;Scorpion&#8221; in the VMs&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/21/the-scorpio-scorpion-in-the-vms</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/21/the-scorpio-scorpion-in-the-vms#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel Landini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f73r]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Grove]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=304</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While snooping around the (mostly empty) user subsites on Glen Claston&#8217;s Voynich Central, I came across a page by someone called Robin devoted solely to the Scorpio &#8220;Scorpion&#8221; page in the VMs. This has an unusual drawing of a scorpion (or salamander) at the centre, and which I agree demands closer attention&#8230; My first observation is that, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[While snooping around the (mostly empty) user subsites on Glen Claston&#8217;s Voynich Central, I came across a page by someone called Robin devoted solely to the Scorpio &#8220;Scorpion&#8221; page in the VMs. This has an unusual drawing of a scorpion (or salamander) at the centre, and which I agree demands closer attention&#8230;

My first observation is that, while [...]]]></content:encoded>
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