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		<title>Well, here&#8217;s where the answer may be found&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/12/17/well-heres-where-the-answer-may-be-found</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marcello Simonetta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a while, I&#8217;ve had an itch (a Voyn-itch, if you prefer) I couldn&#8217;t work out how to scratch. You see&#8230; about six years ago, I found an old history book digitized on archive.org (if I remember correctly): it related how Francesco Sforza assembled an ongoing ad hoc council of representatives of various city-states surrounding Milan, told [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For a while, I&#8217;ve had an itch (a Voyn-itch, if you prefer) I couldn&#8217;t work out how to scratch.
You see&#8230; about six years ago, I found an old history book digitized on archive.org (if I remember correctly): it related how Francesco Sforza assembled an ongoing ad hoc council of representatives of various city-states surrounding Milan, told them [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Visually mapping Cusanus and Bessarion&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/09/visually-mapping-cusanus-and-bessarion</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Byzantine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned here recently, I&#8217;ve been trying to grasp the structure of the humanist community of astronomers / mathematicians orbiting around Nicholas of Cusa and Cardinal Bessarion in Rome&#8230; but so far haven&#8217;t found any definitively useful books on the subject. Thony Christie has a nice article here, and there&#8217;s a book on 15th [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As I mentioned here recently, I&#8217;ve been trying to grasp the structure of the humanist community of astronomers / mathematicians orbiting around Nicholas of Cusa and Cardinal Bessarion in Rome&#8230; but so far haven&#8217;t found any definitively useful books on the subject. Thony Christie has a nice article here, and there&#8217;s a book on 15th [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>David A. King&#8217;s Regiomontanus acrostic theory&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/08/david-a-kings-regiomontanus-acrostic-theory</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Astrolabes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Byzantine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though Professor David A. King is best known, academically speaking, for his detailed study of astrolabes, I first ran across him via his epic (2001) tome &#8220;The Ciphers of the Monks&#8221; (summarised here): there, what happened was that one particular 14th century astrolabe from Picardy had some markings in an unusual number system first devised by Cistercian monks, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Though Professor David A. King is best known, academically speaking, for his detailed study of astrolabes, I first ran across him via his epic (2001) tome &#8220;The Ciphers of the Monks&#8221; (summarised here): there, what happened was that one particular 14th century astrolabe from Picardy had some markings in an unusual number system first devised by Cistercian monks, and [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&quot;Mappamundi&quot; Voynich novel&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/30/mappamundi-voynich-novel</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/30/mappamundi-voynich-novel#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Harris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fans of historical novelist Christopher Harris have a new Voynich Manuscript-themed book of his heading their way in early 2009: to be published by Dedalus Books, &#8220;Mappamundi&#8221; is a non-Byzantine sequel to the final book in Harris&#8217; Byzantine trilogy, &#8220;False Ambassador&#8221; (if that&#8217;s not too confusing). I asked him how he came to find the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Fans of historical novelist Christopher Harris have a new Voynich Manuscript-themed book of his heading their way in early 2009: to be published by Dedalus Books, &#8220;Mappamundi&#8221; is a non-Byzantine sequel to the final book in Harris&#8217; Byzantine trilogy, &#8220;False Ambassador&#8221; (if that&#8217;s not too confusing). I asked him how he came to find the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>New Byzantium book&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/03/26/new-byzantium-book</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/03/26/new-byzantium-book#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I&#8217;ve spent looking at the Voynich Manuscript, I&#8217;ve become progressively more accustomed to its ways, to the point that it is no longer an enciphered grimoire to me, but simply a book we cannot as yet read. When learning to juggle, the primary force which keeps the ball in the hand is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Over the years I&#8217;ve spent looking at the Voynich Manuscript, I&#8217;ve become progressively more accustomed to its ways, to the point that it is no longer an enciphered grimoire to me, but simply a book we cannot as yet read. When learning to juggle, the primary force which keeps the ball in the hand is [...]]]></content:encoded>
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